Excerpt from The Ante-Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri
The first nine Cantos of the Purgatorio of Dante are but preliminary to the rest; and several German critics have adopted the title of "Ante-Purgatorio," by which Italians have sometimes distinguished them. It is not until the opening of Canto X.,
"La dove'l Purgatorio ha dritto inizio,"
that we pass the threshold of the gate which leads to the several rounds of penance.
The present translator, being occupied with other portions of the Divine Comedy, feels free to postpone for a time the publication of his complete version of the Purgatory, together with such notes as may have approved themselves the fruit of a long study. But as these nine Cantos have already appeared in the "Catholic World," and as they form one recognized division of the poem, they are now reprinted for the use of those who have desired to possess them in one collection.
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