Mount Purgatory
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Mount Purgatory is the allegorical mountain in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy where souls ascend through purgation toward spiritual purification and eventual entrance into Paradise.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
allegorical place
ⓘ
fictional mountain ⓘ location in literature ⓘ |
| accessedFrom | shore of the island of Purgatory ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Purgatorio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfComposition | 14th century ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Inferno
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paradiso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cosmologicalRole | intermediate realm between Hell and Heaven ⓘ |
| createdBy | Dante Alighieri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalGoal | entrance into Paradise ⓘ |
| firstCantoNumberInPurgatorio | Canto I ⓘ |
| firstGuides | Virgil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formedFrom | earth displaced by the fall of Lucifer ⓘ |
| governedBy | angelic wardens of each terrace ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ante-Purgatory
NERFINISHED
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Earthly Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ Terraces of Purgatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShape | conical mountain ⓘ |
| influenced |
Renaissance and Baroque literature on the afterlife
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later Christian eschatological imagination ⓘ visual arts depicting Purgatory ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | souls destined for Heaven ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Italian ⓘ |
| laterGuides | Beatrice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | Christian allegory ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Southern Hemisphere (fictional cosmology) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Earth (fictional cosmology of the Divine Comedy) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralOrientation | hope and eventual salvation ⓘ |
| moralStructureBasedOn | seven deadly sins ⓘ |
| numberOfTerraces | 7 ⓘ |
| oppositeTo | Jerusalem (in Dante’s cosmology) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Divine Comedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose | purgation of sins ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Christianity ⓘ |
| summitRepresents | restoration of original human innocence ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
ascent of the soul toward God
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penitential journey ⓘ spiritual purification ⓘ |
| terracesCorrespondTo |
Avarice and Prodigality
NERFINISHED
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Envy ⓘ Gluttony ⓘ Lust ⓘ Pride ⓘ Sloth ⓘ Wrath ⓘ |
| timeRegime | souls experience passage of time ⓘ |
| topFeature | Earthly Paradise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.