The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete is 36,572 words — about 2h 26m at 250 words per minute, across 34 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.
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How it opens
O’er better waves to speed her rapid course The light bark of my genius lifts the sail, Well pleas’d to leave so cruel sea behind; And of that second region will I sing, In which the human spirit from sinful blot Is purg’d, and for ascent to Heaven prepares.…
Details
- AuthorDante Alighieri
- SourceProject Gutenberg #8795
- Length36,572 words · 2h 26m of reading
- Chapters34
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
34 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01LIST OF CANTOS
- 02CANTO I
- 03CANTO II
- 04CANTO III
- 05CANTO IV
- 06CANTO V
- 07CANTO VI
- 08CANTO VII
- 09CANTO VIII
- 10CANTO IX
- 11CANTO X
- 12CANTO XI
- 13CANTO XII
- 14CANTO XIII
- 15CANTO XIV
- 16CANTO XV
- 17CANTO XVI
- 18CANTO XVII
- 19CANTO XVIII
- 20CANTO XIX
- 21CANTO XX
- 22CANTO XXI
- 23CANTO XXII
- 24CANTO XXIII
- 25CANTO XXIV
- 26CANTO XXV
- 27CANTO XXVI
- 28CANTO XXVII
- 29CANTO XXVIII
- 30CANTO XXIX
- 31CANTO XXX
- 32CANTO XXXI
- 33CANTO XXXII
- 34CANTO XXXIII
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