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Chapter 2 - Humility as Difficult Devotion (Purg. 1–9)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2023

Rachel K. Teubner
Rachel K. Teubner
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Australian Catholic University, Melbourne
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This chapter examines Dante’s journey through Ante-purgatory as staging the difficulties of taking up practices of humility and of leaving behind the prideful independence and preoccupations of earthly existence. Through embracing the practices offered by Christian Scripture and liturgy, I argue, souls may overcome these distractions; through receiving the help offered by liturgical, biblical, and literary sources, as well as by the guides, messengers, and souls he encounters along the way, Dante also takes up humble practices that continually reengage him in Christian devotion, in moral action, and in the composition of the poem.

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Dante and the Practice of Humility
A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy
 , pp. 122 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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