A skier died Wednesday at Purgatory Resort after falling into a tree well and suffering a medical emergency. Pablo Spencer, 39, of Oklahoma City, fell on the Upper Bull Run trail, an expert run ...

The “Purgatorio” ends with the words: “From that most holy water I returned made young again, as new trees are in spring when with new foliage they renew themselves, pure, and disposed to ...

Dante’s Purgatorio, the sequel, came out on October 31st from Carcanet, exactly 10 years after its predecessor. And similarly, perhaps even more so, it takes Ireland as its theme in many places.

The tweet got me to thinking about Dante’s sojourn in Purgatory, on the Terrace of Envy (where the repentant Envious are purged of their tendency to envy others).

But in Purgatory Dante describes a process—slow and arduous, like analysis—of unriddling the mysteries of self-sabotage. As Beatrice puts it to him: ...

Now, her take on Dante’s Purgatorio, the lesser-known yet much-loved second canticle of his epic poem, has hit the shelves — just in time for the 700th anniversary of the great poet’s death.

Read Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’ for All Souls’ Day. We do the poor souls a great kindness by our prayers and pious acts to help speed them on their journey to Paradise.

On The New Yorker’s Poetry podcast, Mary Jo Bang joins Kevin Young to discuss her translation of Purgatorio, the second part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy.

Follow Dante Into Purgatory With Online Exhibition of ‘Divine Comedy’ Drawings The Uffizi Gallery’s digital show features 88 illustrations by 16th-century artist Federico Zuccari ...

The true measure of a man lies in his ability to cope with failure. Defeat presents us only two alternatives: despair or hope. Dante Alighieri chose the latter.

Straight Teaching. The Catechism of the Catholic Church presents the teaching on purgatory as a matter of “final purification.” “All who die in God’s grace and friendship,” the Catechism ...