this is the place where all souls, preparing for blessedness, are working to become “new” again: innocent as at birth, innocent as the human race in the Garden of Eden.threads of loss are interwoven with threads of beauty to create the new fabric of Purgatorio: the quest for freedom of the will requires setting aside mortal goods, even the most beautiful and worthy.the travelers find themselves on the seashore looking out at a sapphire sea: a world of light and beauty takes the place of the “mar sì crudele” (cruel sea ) on which the poet’s ship has sailed thus far.Dante narrates his version of the “birth of Purgatory” at the end of Inferno 34, verses 112-26, where he connects the formation of the mountain of Purgatory to the fall of Lucifer.
21.41-2): the rules and regulations, the “administration” of Purgatory - all are Dante’s to invent
Dante enjoys carte blanche to invent his Purgatory: the very idea of Purgatory as a mountain is Dante’s.the theology of Purgatory: relatively unscripted compared to the theology of Hell and the theology of Paradise.
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