Description
Dante’s Purgatorio has been called “the noblest representation of Purgatory ever conceived by the human mind.” We explore the development of the concept of this third realm of the Afterlife before accompanying Dante on his four-day journey up the seven tiers of the Mount of Purgatory, ending in the Garden of Eden. Our journey is enlivened with images from a captivating, illuminated manuscript in the Vatican Library.
Timothy Graham is a distinguished professor of history and a regents’ professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNM. He served as director of the Institute for Medieval Studies 2002-2020, organizing the acclaimed annual Medieval Spring Lecture Series. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Cambridge and an MPhil from the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is the coauthor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies.