| Purgatory Contributor(s): Alighieri, Dante (Author) |
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ISBN: 141914345X ISBN-13: 9781419143458 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: O glory of the Latins, said he, "through whom our language showed what it could do, O honor eternal of the place wherefrom I was, what merit or what grace shows thee to me? If I am worthy to hear thy words, tell me if thou comest from Hell, and from what cloister." "Through all the circles of the realm of woe," replied he to him, "am I come hither; Power of Heaven moved me, and with it I come. Not by doing, but by not doing have I lost the sight of the high Sun whom thou desirest, and who by me was known late. A place there is below not sad with torments but with darkness only, where the lamentations sound not as wailings, but are sighs; there stay I with the little innocents bitten by the teeth of death before they were exempt from human sin; there stay I with those who were not vested with the three holy virtues, and without vice knew the others and followed all of them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Epic - Poetry | Medieval - Poetry | European - Italian |
| Dewey: 851.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 7.48" W x 9.42" (0.54 lbs) 132 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Italy |
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