3 lessons from reading Dante's Purgatorio
in 411 words.
1- The path to virtue gets less steep as you climb
“This mountain is such, that climbing it
is harder at the start; but the more one climbs,
the less one feels the effort.”
— Purg. IV.88–90
The first steps in Dante’s path to purge his sin and ascend the mountain to heaven are the steepest. But as …
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