Purgatorio
The Divine Comedy, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dante Alighieri · 1320 · Poetry
Full text · 33 chaptersNarrated in your voice
What it's about
Out of Hell, Dante and Virgil climb the mountain of Purgatory, terrace by terrace, among souls working off pride, envy, anger and the rest, until Dante reaches the Earthly Paradise at the summit and meets Beatrice. The second part of the Divine Comedy in Longfellow's line-for-line translation, in all thirty-three cantos.
Reading plan
Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.
Read together
Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.
Who it's for
- Readers who finished the Inferno and want to go on - Anyone drawn to a poem about change rather than punishment - Good read aloud, one canto a night
What’s inside
Showing the first 24 of 33 chapters — open the book for the rest.
