Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Ante-Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri
In perusing this version Of the Purgatorio of Dante, the reader may profitably direct his attention less to any dogma of the church or any formula of a special creed, than to the allegorical sense of the poet, founded, as it must be acknowledged by all Christian believers, upon the facts of our nature and the history of the human heart. The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory may be combated as an article of faith, but must be admitted as a true statement of the condition of mankind, religiously considered. The wretched state of man living without God in the world; the self - conviction of sin; the necessity of a Saviour; and the possibility of attaining, through the heavy passages of contrition and the wearisome stages of penance, to the peace which passeth understanding, is the sum of the doctrines embodied in the Divina Commedia.
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