FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Rachel and Leah
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Brutus and Cassius
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Dido and Aeneas
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Pope Boniface and Pope Clement
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Detailed explanation-1: -The third and final dream of Purgatorio occurs in canto XXVII on the terrace of the lustful, just before Dante is able to enter the Earthly Paradise. Again, the dream happens just before dawn. During the dream, Dante encounters Leah walking in a meadow.
Detailed explanation-2: -He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante’s version of Purgatory is extraordinarily detailed and, in some key respects, strikingly original. First, he imagines Purgatory as being divided up into seven terraces, each one corresponding to a vice (in the order that Dante sees them: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Avarice and Prodigality, Gluttony and Lust).
Detailed explanation-4: -Rachel an Old Testament figure; here, she is said to represent Contemplative Life. Beatrice Dante’s childhood and lifelong love and future guide through Paradise.
Detailed explanation-5: -Rachel Jacoff is one of the leading lights in the small, close-knit world of Dante scholarship. In this Entitled Opinions episode on The Divine Comedy, she continues her conversation on The Inferno, with her former student, our Entitled Opinions host Robert Harrison, himself a major Dante scholar.