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3 lessons from reading Dante's Purgatorio

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Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car 1824-7 by William Blake 1757-1827
Beatrice Addressing Dante from the Car (William Blake, 1824–7)

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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