ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He has two guides: Virgil, who leads him through the Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice, who introduces him to Paradiso.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Dante is guided by the Roman poet Virgil, who represents the epitome of human knowledge, from the dark wood through the descending circles of the pit of Hell (Inferno). Passing Lucifer at the pit’s bottom, at the dead centre of the world, Dante and Virgil emerge on the beach of the island mountain of Purgatory.

Detailed explanation-4: -Purgatorio, the second part of Dante’s Divine Comedy, describes the poet’s vision of journeying through Purgatory, the place where Christian souls (though destined for Heaven) are cleansed of the sins they committed during their earthly lives.