The Divine Comedy Purgatory Author:Dante Of the three parts of The Divine Comedy, Purgatory (as Dorothy L. Sayers remarks in her comprehensive remarks) is 'the least known, the least quoted, and the most loved'. In her fine translation Dante can clearly be seen as the universal poet- sublime, grim, intellectual, simple, humorous, tender,and ecstatic. In contrast to the Inferno,... more » this canticle deals with the roots instead of the fruits of sin, as Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory on the arduous journey toward God.« less