FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Sapia
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Cato
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Sordello
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -The upper part of the mountain consists of seven terraces, each of which corresponds to one of the seven capital sins. Atop the mountain Dante locates, Eden, the Earthly Paradise, the place where the pilgrim is reunited with Beatrice, the woman who inspired the poem.
Detailed explanation-4: -Casella. Casella is a musician friend of Dante’s. Sordello. A 13th-century Italian poet, Sordello becomes Dante’s and Virgil’s guide through the earlier levels of Purgatory. Manfred. Belacqua. Jacopo del Cassero. Buonconte de Montefeltro. La Pia. Lucia. More items