https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/purgatorio/purgatorio-32/ Purg. 32 continued: Then did the ground between the two wheels seem to me to open; from the earth, a dragon emerged; it drove its tail up through the chariot; […] Just like a fortress set on a steep slope, securely seat...

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/purgatorio/purgatorio-32/ Purg. 32 continued: So, round the robust tree, the others shouted; and the two-natured animal: “Thus is the seed of every righteous man preserved.” […] Just like our plants that, when the great light falls on earth, mix...

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/purgatorio/purgatorio-32/ Purg. 32: My eyes were so insistent, so intent on finding satisfaction for their ten— year thirst that every other sense was spent. And to each side, my eyes were walled in by indifference to all else (with its old net,...

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/purgatorio/purgatorio-31/ Purg. 31: “O you upon the holy stream’s far shore ,” [..] Just as a crossbow that is drawn too taut snaps both its cord and bow when it is shot, and arrow meets its mark with feeble force, so, caught beneath that heavy ...

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/purgatorio/purgatorio-30/ Purg. 30: When the first heaven’s Seven—Stars had halted (those stars that never rise or set, that are not veiled except when sin beclouds our vision; […] the Seven—Stars turned toward that chariot as toward their peace...

I transfer the discussion from the other thread to here, since at least the title of this thread contains Dante. After having written this We fully agree Phaeded, that the famous triumphal procession at the end of the Purgatory is decisive for the ur-tarocch' (I prefer to name it like this since the...

Phaeded, I will transfer our discussion to https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2282&start=10 , since we are now talking about Dante and this has nothing to do with the Nightmare Alley. In contrast, Dante provides in his Commedia a stairway to heaven, an alley of light. See yo...

Following Huck, it seems to me that I interpret For the common form, and as it first came to us, is such that four kings are depicted in four cards, each of which sits on the royal throne. And every one has a certain [individual] sign in his hand. By these signs some are considered to be good signs,...

That triumphal procession is accompanied by the 7 virtues, which then form the outline of the first seven parts of the Paradiso, where they are each expanded upon in multiple cantos each: The three Theologicals and four Cardinals behind them in the carro at the end of Purgatory (Egerton MS 943, f. ...

Addendum to This is what I want to express all the time since opening the other thread "For tarot: Dante, Plato and no Fool", https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2282 , in this very Forum : it is Dante. After reading the whole Dante -more or less-- I am even quite sure ...