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Purgatory, Canto 27 – The Last Oratories of Virgil

“thee o’er thyself I therefore crown and mitre”

Purgatory, Canto 26 – Meeting the Two Groups of...

“Then, like cranes which flying some might be to the Riphaeans, some tow’rd the sandy waste, these from the frost, those from the sun to flee; the one band going,...

Purgatory, Canto 25 – Rising to the 7th Level: ...

“I saw in the midst of it souls walking”

Purgatory, Canto 24 – The Tree of Chastisement

“Pass farther on, without drawing near, and go higher; there stands the stock whereof Eve chose to eat, and thence did this, its scion grow”

Purgatory, Canto 23 – Gluttony

“Who, unless told the cause thereof, would guess that the mere smell of fruit and of a spring had thus wrought, by engendering greediness?”

Purgatory, Canto 22 – Lavishness

“The primal age, which was as fair as gold, with hunger made the acorn delicate, and every brook with thirst a nectar hold”