Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to the Inferno (34 cantos), this volume is divided into 33 cantos, written in tercets (groups of 3 lines). A s Dante explains in the opening lines of the canticle, Purgatory is the place in which "the human spirit purges himself, and climbing to Heaven makes himself worthy.".
- Outline of Purgatorio -- Canto by Canto. Purgatorio, Canto I. Synopsis: Dante has left Hell. The second part of the poem begins with the invocation to the Muses to.
- Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The Divine Comedy. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. Purgatory : Canto I : ARGUMENT.—The Poet describes the delight he experienced at.
- Notes Cato. Cantos 1.31-108, 2.118-23 A stern, father-like figure, Cato of Utica (95-46 B.C.E.) was a Roman military leader and statesman.
- A. Bronzino, Dante osserva il Purgatorio (1530) È il secondo dei tre regni dell'Oltretomba cristiano visitato da Dante nel corso del viaggio, con la guida di Virgilio.
- Online Library of Liberty. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2 (Purgatorio) (English only trans. Carpenter in “The Spiritual Message of Dante”).
- Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new.