Mount Purgatory

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Mount Purgatory is the allegorical mountain in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy where souls ascend through purgation toward spiritual purification and eventual entrance into Paradise.

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Mount Purgatory canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf allegorical place
fictional mountain
location in literature
accessedFrom shore of the island of Purgatory
appearsInWork Purgatorio
centuryOfComposition 14th century
contrastedWith Inferno
Paradiso
cosmologicalRole intermediate realm between Hell and Heaven
createdBy Dante Alighieri
finalGoal entrance into Paradise
firstCantoNumberInPurgatorio Canto I
firstGuides Virgil
formedFrom earth displaced by the fall of Lucifer
governedBy angelic wardens of each terrace
hasPart Ante-Purgatory
Earthly Paradise
Terraces of Purgatory
linked to: Purgatorio
hasShape conical mountain
influenced Renaissance and Baroque literature on the afterlife
later Christian eschatological imagination
visual arts depicting Purgatory
inhabitedBy souls destined for Heaven
languageOfWork Italian
laterGuides Beatrice
literaryGenre Christian allegory
locatedIn Southern Hemisphere (fictional cosmology)
linked to: Southern Hemisphere
locatedOn Earth (fictional cosmology of the Divine Comedy)
moralOrientation hope and eventual salvation
moralStructureBasedOn seven deadly sins
numberOfTerraces 7
oppositeTo Jerusalem (in Dante’s cosmology)
partOf Divine Comedy
purpose purgation of sins
religiousContext Christianity
summitRepresents restoration of original human innocence
symbolizes ascent of the soul toward God
penitential journey
spiritual purification
terracesCorrespondTo Avarice and Prodigality
linked to: Greed

Envy
Gluttony
Lust
Pride
Sloth
Wrath
timeRegime souls experience passage of time
topFeature Earthly Paradise

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Purgatorio setting Mount Purgatory