Dante, Purgatory and Paradise
Dante’s Earthly Paradise
Dante enters a celestial forest filled with green shade, fragrant ground and a gentle, steady air. The setting follows the mountain’s penances and offers a different kind of movement and encounter. The guide links this place with perpetual spring and the condition of humanity before guilt. Its streams prepare the traveller’s renewed readiness for the celestial ascent.
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Principal account
LiteraryDante enters a celestial forest filled with green shade, fragrant ground and a gentle, steady air. The setting follows the mountain’s penances and offers a different kind of movement and encounter.
Further detail
LiteraryThe guide links this place with perpetual spring and the condition of humanity before guilt. Its streams prepare the traveller’s renewed readiness for the celestial ascent.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows Cary’s translation of Dante’s poem. This entry concerns the summit garden in Dante, kept distinct from Milton’s Eden and other accounts of the earthly paradise. Its people and places are presented within the literary vision, with the historical or theological subject distinguished from the role Dante assigns it.
Original passages
Source 1
Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante
that celestial forestOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Dante, Purgatory and Paradise; active reader leaf 170
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- Edition
- IMJ-0119-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0119-E001-P0170
- Original scan leaf
- 171
- Recorded leaf number
- 171
- Current Reader position
- 167
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Source 2
Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante
Perpetual spring, and every fruitOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Dante, Purgatory and Paradise; active reader leaf 174
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- Edition
- IMJ-0119-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0119-E001-P0174
- Original scan leaf
- 175
- Recorded leaf number
- 175
- Current Reader position
- 171
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Eunoe
The companion stream that restores the memory of good.
Shared source pageLethe in Dante’s Garden
The stream that removes remembrance of offence.
Same subject and traditionDante’s Mountain of Purgatory
The mountain where purified desire makes ascent possible.
Same subject and traditionThe Gate of Purgatory
The guarded threshold opened by two different keys.