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Purgatorio: Canto 9
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Purgatorio: Canto 9

Dreams and the helping hand of Saint Lucy

Dante dreams of being Ganymede snatched by an eagle into the burning heavens, only to discover that he’s actually been carried like a sleeping infant to the Gates of Purgatory by Saint Lucy. What looks like violence is sometimes love.

Dante Is Taken up in a Dream by the Eagle – Domenico Mastroianni (early-mid-20th cent.) via dantecomedy.com

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