Dante, Purgatorio
Pia's Request to Be Remembered
After the longer recollections of the other speakers, a third spirit asks Dante to remember her once he has returned to the world and rested from his journey. She names herself Pia and says Siena gave her life while Maremma took it. Her closing words refer to the person who had first married her with a jewelled ring.
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The encounter
LiteraryAfter the longer recollections of the other speakers, a third spirit asks Dante to remember her once he has returned to the world and rested from his journey.
Further detail
LiteraryShe names herself Pia and says Siena gave her life while Maremma took it. Her closing words refer to the person who had first married her with a jewelled ring.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the supplied Thompson & Thomas edition of H. F. Cary’s translation. It describes Dante’s literary vision, distinguishing its assignments and reported claims from historical biography, other classical traditions and independently established accounts of an afterlife.
Original passages
Source 1
Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante
then remember me. I once was Pia. Sienna gave me life; Maremma took it from me. That he knows, Who me with jewel'd ring had firstOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Purgatory and Paradise, Cary translation; active reader leaf 37
Passage read in the exact edition’s extracted canto text; whitespace-normalised anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Associated plates separately inspected.
- Edition
- IMJ-0119-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0119-E001-P0037
- Original scan leaf
- 38
- Recorded leaf number
- 38
- Current Reader position
- 34
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Source 2
Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante
I once was Pia. Sienna gave me life; Maremma took it from me. That he knows, Who me with jewel'd ring had first espoused."Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Purgatory and Paradise, Cary translation; active reader leaf 37
Passage read in the exact edition’s extracted canto text; whitespace-normalised anchor and original-leaf mapping checked. Associated plates separately inspected.
- Edition
- IMJ-0119-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0119-E001-P0037
- Original scan leaf
- 38
- Recorded leaf number
- 38
- Current Reader position
- 34
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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