Contrapasso
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In Dante's Inferno, contrapasso is the punishment of souls "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself." A similar process occurs in the Purgatorio.
The Contrapasso of the sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets, illustrated by Stradanus
Purgatorio
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Purgatorio is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso; it was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegorical telling of the climb of Dante u
Contrapasso
…suffer the opposite") is the punishment of souls "by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself." A similar process occurs in the Purgatorio. One of the examples of contrapasso occurs in the fourth Bolgia of the eighth circle of Hell, where the sorcerers, astrologers, and false prophets have…
A page of the Purgatorio at the Laurentian Library
Le Dante, conduit par Virgile, offre des consolations aux âmes des Envieux by Hippolyte Flandrin
Purgatorio, Canto II: Christian souls arrive singing, escorted by an angel
Pia de' Tolomei (La Pia) in a painting by Stefano Ussi, Canto V.