FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Question
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Tomato
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Hell
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Purgatory
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Life
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Detailed explanation-1: -purgatory, the condition, process, or place of purification or temporary punishment in which, according to medieval Christian and Roman Catholic belief, the souls of those who die in a state of grace are made ready for heaven.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the shores of Purgatory, Dante and Virgil meet Cato, a pagan who was placed by God as the general guardian of the approach to the mountain (his symbolic significance has been much debated).
Detailed explanation-3: -A Spanish theologian from the late Middle Ages once argued that the average Christian spends 1000 to 2000 years in purgatory (according to Stephen Greenblatt’s Hamlet in Purgatory). But there’s no official take on the average sentence.
Detailed explanation-4: -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).