Divine Comedy Summary
Purgatory
Song I:
The beginning of this second part of the divine comedy introduces us to Dante invoking the muses;asking Caliope to help him resurface his poem from the dead kingdom of hell. They introduce us to a relieved dante of being out of hell and seeing the sky, ‘the soft tone of oriental sapphire’, finally once again. Looking back to the North Pole, Dante sees a constellation that tells him the time of day, but before he can calculate it in the exact minute, an old man distracts him. The old man is similar to a wise man with a face framed by the light of those four significant stars. He approaches Dante and asks who he is to escape from hell. Keep with a flood of questions: who was your guide? Have the laws of hell be broken? Or have the powers change? Virgil, who unlike Dante is not distracted by man’s questions, forces Dante to ‘knees and eyebrows to show reverence’. Then Virgil reviews his speech, answering all the aforementioned questions. Virgil shows his impressive knowledge by identifying the old man as a cato and giving his death his death in political freedom. Virgil extends to Cato telling him that his true love, Marcia, prays in the same circle as him in hell and throws the threat to the old man to allow them to go through the concession to return their condolences to her. However, Cato no longer feels love for this given to hell and has no authority about his rise. Here is the decisive factor. Cato tells Virgil that if he has been sent by the Virgin Mary, there is no need for adulation. He can go through her. Cato then orders Virgil to continue, but first bought Dante a new wardrobe. He needs to get a new belt made in a hurry and wash his face to be able to clean everything for purgatory. Given this, then they could start climbing the purgatory mountain. After these indications, the old man disappears and our protagonists go back to the banks again, to hurry through the belts. Dante realizes that they are walking on a shore that has never felt the passage of a living man. Then he could start climbing the purgatory mountain. After these indications, the old man disappears and our protagonists go back to the banks again, to hurry through the belts. Dante realizes that they are walking on a shore that has never felt the passage of a living man. Then you could start climbing the purgatory mountain. After these indications, the old man disappears and our protagonists go back to the banks again, to hurry through the belts. Dante realizes that they are walking on a shore that has never felt the passage of a living man.
Song II:
In the distance of a landscape that begins to dawn, Dante spy something in the water. The figure reflects a brightness, (comparison with Mars and flying bird), as it approaches. Before Dante’s astonishment and the knowledge of his guide about what they are seeing, Virgil orders Dante to kneel and join his hands in prayer before the presence of an angel of God. Virgil praises with adoration: ‘Look, our pretty angel is simply too good for mortal media. He will only use his wings as candles and oars. And see how they point to heaven, and they always keep milky, because they are immortal!’To the angel while this is approaching with a boat full of souls. All are singing a psalm: ‘In Exitu Israel de Aegypto’, come from Psalm 114. After the arrival on the shore, the angel proceeds to leave with his ship leaving the souls with Virgil and Dante, who proceed to ask him about how to climb the mountain. Virgil responds that in the same way, they arrived from hell and that they have no intuition. The souls that are perplexed before Dante’s facade, who is still in flesh and blood, proceed to show their appreciation to the poet;a specific hugging the same. Later, they introduce us to this shadow as Casella, who had died long before Dante’s trip through hell and who remained in Ostia, the port of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber River, to cross to where he was currently. Event to this, the soul, which is recognized as Italian composer and singer of Dante’s times, begins to provide a melody that hypnotizes all that found on the banks of the anti purgatory. Moments later, we see the presence of the old Cato, who interrupts the chord of Casella and imposes the continuation of the purge before the mountain skirt;With these, our heroes continue, Dante and Virgil.
XXX song:
Dante then continues his trip through purgatory, consecutively visiting the stands of this kingdom, until the top of the Purgatory Mount, better known as the earthly paradise or the garden of Eden. In the lares of this site, Dante sees his beloved Beatriz down through a flower cloud, dressed in a white veil, a green layer, a red fire dress and crowned by olive branches. At first glance, Dante trembles, feeling within himself a familiar feeling, ‘The great power of the old love’. After the course of the scene, we see Dante’s intentions to go to Virgil, who suddenly part of the story after such a long journey. In this moment of so much emotional manifestation for our author and character, Beatriz is expressed for the first time in the poem, making the only direct mention in the work to the character of Dante. He begs him not to cry because he will have to keep his tears ready for another wound from another sword. In turn, Dante reprimands for sobbing in earthly paradise, where men are supposed to be happy. Ashamed, Dante bows his head and sees his reflection in the stream. Here, Beatriz is compared to a mother who scolds her son. Suddenly, the angels surrounding Beatriz intervene, asking him to have the mercy of poor Dante. Given this, Beatriz rebukes them and explains that when Dante was young, all the spheres and Divine thanks favored him so much that he could have succeeded with his great poetic talent. This, given that she used to guide him along the right path by virtue of her love for me. However, after his death, he abandoned her following another person and touring a crooked path where. He expresses his failed attempts to approach him in his dreams and as finally, Dante departs from the true path having him to expose, with the help of Virgil, to all the horrors of hell as the only hope to save his soul. Here in the purgatory, he is destined to drink from the leeus and purge his soul to get rid of anyone who sin who can succumb to him.
XXXI song:
Having told this story, Beatriz returns to Dante, who is still ashamed;He orders him to speak and affirm his accusations. Completely stunned by his words, Dante cannot speak. Seeing him in silence, she encourages him to speak, but his efforts do not succeed. Finally, all your contained emotion springs. In this way, Dante’s voice spills from him, but it is not strong enough to make his way to Beatrice, mixed with tears. Beatriz continues to ask Dante about what problems she found with her mother after her death who made her stop moving forward along the true path. Dante manages to bitterly whisper that ‘the mere appearances made me aside with their false beauty, as soon as I lost your countenance’. Beatriz says that if Dante had not confessed, he would still have been guilty, because God knows all his faults;From here justice would be done from its side. Continue arguing regarding the shame that Dante must feel to avoid sinning when temptation arrives. Showing arrogance, Beatriz says that nothing should have been as beautiful for him as her, even after his death. While he listens, loaded with guilt, compares with a budding bird, to whom his parents must hit a couple of times before he finds out. It’s like a child, sullen and silent, but knowing the truth of his accuser’s words. After the veil, Dante tells us the immense beauty that he knew he ruled her;The overwhelming appearance of this overwhelms him and he proceeds to pass out. When he wakes up, he is retained by Matilde, who sinks him into his neck to his neck, and then takes him to his gondola to take him to Beatrice. Near the shore, Matilde immerses him again in the water, this time so deeply making him drink from his waters. She bathes him and takes him to Beatriz’s maids, who do the same by directing him back to Beatriz. Having lost your memory by the waters of the Leteo and before the order of this to look at Beatriz’s bright eyes, Dante remains hypnotized, praying to the muses again, begging them for the ability to stay sane when they face Beatriz’s beauty.
Song XXXII:
Moments later we see Beatriz’s revelation, generating a fainting in Dante, who when he regained his eyes, realizes that the entire procession has turned to be oriented towards the east. Dante, directed by Matilde and Stacio, falls behind the carriage, which carries it to a huge tree stripped of leaves and flowers. All those around Dante mutter ‘Adam’ when they approach the tree, identifying it as the tree of knowledge of which Eva stole the prohibited fruit. While Dante observes this miraculous view, the others begin to sing a anthem that Dante cannot understand. Instead, he feels himself sleepy and succumb. After awakening, where Beatriz is located and, from here, he has visions about eagles, foxes, giants and prostitutes.
Canto XXXIII:
Absolutely horrified, Beatrice’s maidens cry and begin to sing a psalm. Meanwhile, Beatriz and Dante begins to dialogue. After discussions about the reasoning of man and that of God, Dante distinguishes noon and observes how the seven Beatriz maidens stop walking before the banks of a river, to run into the rivers of the Leteo and Eunae. So, Beatriz orders Matilde to guide Dante to the Eunoe to restore his memory of good actions. After a bath in the Eunoe, we see the last image of Dante’s figures, Beatriz, Matilde and Stacio approaching the stars of heaven.
THE PARADISE
Song I:
The third part of the song introduces us to Dante delighting incredible landscapes on the road to the sky with Beatriz;Never views seen by the eyes of any mortal. In the first instance, Dante and Beatriz are looking at the Sun, an action not scientifically possible in the earthly space but in Dante’s Paradise stays. While this flies up and questioned as such a heavy soul has such a capacity, listen to the music of the surrounding spheres, which seem to have no origin. Beatriz, frustrated by Dante’s issues, explains that everything in the universe is organized in a certain order, as God decrees. Everything has the desire to be close to God;I want to affect everything, except those souls that are distracted with earthly pleasures.[Ray] This attraction call from God, Beatrice explains, is what shoots Dante as an arrow towards the highest sky.
XXX song:
After the course of the different circles of heaven, the highest, better known as El Empíreo, place of pure light, intellect and love arrive. Here, Dante is suddenly wrapped in the dignified light that welcomes all souls;rays that prepare the soul of man for the definitive light. Suddenly, Dante realizes that he is floating, and with this new feeling he sees a dazzling view. In the distance, Dante sees a river of reddish gold. Overwhelmed by sight, Dante begs God to allow him to keep the memory of what he is seeing. Go to run into a large dome of light that illuminates everything underneath. In the upper part of this, which acts as a mirror, Dante observes the heavenly rose, with its reflected hosts. Then, Dante returns his eyes to Rosa herself and collects the fruit of her perfect vision. Realizes that you can see everything regardless of how close or far is. Beatriz, proceeds to take Dante to La Rosa, where our adventurer manages to discern the immense number of people who are in such a place and the few seats that remain for the blessed. Note an empty seat with a fixed crown on top, whom Beatriz will then explain that he is stored for Henry VIII of Luxembourg (man who Dante believed that he would unite Italy and take the crown of the sacred Roman Empire to take peace to Europe).
XXXI song:
Inside the Rosa Dante sees the blessed spirits brigade. The other host, formed by Los Angeles, goes from the light of God to the rose itself. The hosts come from both the Old Testament and the New Testament, and all return their eyes to the Sun, which is a single star that contains the Trinity of God. Dante, who continues to be amazed by these parts of the sky loses sight of Beatriz and in his search, runs into San Bernardo, an old man devoted to the Virgin Mary, who will be replaced to guide him in the last stage of his trip. Pased by such news, Dante lifts his eyes to find her and, although he is far from her seat, he sees all the details of her shining face. He recognizes her for everything he has done for him and he smiles in the distance in response to his prayer. Bernardo returns Dante’s attention to the rose, telling him not only to look at the base but to raise the same until the Queen of Heaven finds, Maria. While looking at her with admiration, Dante realizes that Bernard also looks at Maria with eyes of absolute worship.
Song XXXII:
Meanwhile, San Bernardo lists some of the names that sit in the rose. Start with Maria, continue with Eva, then Rachel and Beatriz in the third range, Sarah, Rebecca, Judith, Ruth and other Hebrew women of the seventh range below. On the left side, in which all the seats are filled, all the souls who believed in Christ feel before he came;In law, which still has some empty seats, is reserved for those who believed in Christ after their arrival. On the other side, in front of Eva, there is San Juan Bautista. Under it are sitting San Francisco, San Benito and Agustín. Looking high, Dante distinguishes Mary, surrounded by angels that sing her. Before her figure, the angel Gabriel kneel, who sings the Ave Maria. San Bernardo continues to mention those in the seat above in the rose. To the left is Adam;On the right is San Pedro;To the right of St. Peter is San Juan Evangelista;To the left of Adam is sitting Moses;Anna (Mother of Mary) sits in front of Pedro. Finally, in front of Adam, Lucia sits. Finally, travelers go to María and San Bernardo begins to pray to her on behalf of Dante.
Canto XXXIII:
San Bernardo, appealing to the compassion of Mary, introduces him to Dante, mentioning that he has arrived through all the divine kingdoms, asking to receive enough virtue to rise even more and see the face of God. Suddenly, the whole host of heaven joins prayer, including Beatriz. Given this, the Virgin Mary proceeds to Eleve to Dante, who would then pray to God to allow him to remember something he saw as she looked at the light. I beg the memory so that he can convey his glory in his poetry and help take people from the future to heaven. From now on, three circles appear, each in three different colors, but all of the same size.
Moment later I would see a flash of light that would fulfill his long -awaited desire, losing his memory and completing his harmony with the will of God.
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