The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri Author:Dante Alighieri General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: J.M. Dent and co. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you c... more »an select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: And already the poet was mounting before me, The Late- and saying : "Come on now, thou seest the RePentant- meridian is touched by the sun, and Night already with her foot covers from Ganges' banks to Morocco." 98. The Florentine Belacqua, a friend of Dante's, was a maker of musical instruments, notorious for his sloth. 123. Seeing that thou art on the road to salvation. 137-139. It is noon in Purgatory, sunrise on the Ganges (the r/W), and sunset in Morocco-Spain (see the diagrams on pp. 34, 35, and below). Showing the portions of the mountain under light and hade at noonday. Cf. Purg. iv. 136-139, xii. 81 (compare xxu. 118-120 -with xxv. 1-3), xxxiii. los-iot AS they pass up the mountain, Dante's shadow still excites the amazement of the souls ; but Virgil bids him pay no heed to their exclamations (1-12). A group of souls chanting the Miserere breaks into a cry of wonder, and when two of them, sent out as messengers, have received Virgil's statement that Dante is still in the first life, the whole group crowd around him (22-42). They tell him that they are souls of the violently slain, who repented and made their peace with God at the last moment. Virgil bids Dante pursue his path, but suffers him to promise to bear Anti- Io era gia da quell' ombre partito, purgatorio e seguitava orme je] mio duca, " quando di retro a me drizzando il dito, una grido : " W che non par che luca lo raggio da sinistra a quel di sotto, j e come vivo par che si conduca." Gli occhi rivolsi al suon di questo motto, 7 e vidile guardar per maraviglia pur me, pur me, e il lu...« less