Purgatory, Episode 8

The First Level of Purgatory is the Terrace of Pride, where the souls are carrying heavy stone slabs on their backs to apprehend a new sense of Humility towards the limitations of human nature and the rational Intellect. This was Dante the Writer’s own main Vice in life, and we’ll first get three examples of Humility from the Biblical Stories and Roman History, as the Virtue to offset and balance the Pride. An implied theme here is also that the Vice of Pride is underlying and amplifying all the other Vices further up the Mountain.

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