Chodząc w zaświatach. Czyściec
Walking in the Netherworld. Purgatory

Summary/Abstract: In his essay about Dante Osip Mandelstam drew attention to the considerable awareness of walking in The Divine Comedy. A meticulous reading of the most recent and literal translation of that work into Polish by Jarosław Mikołajewski proves that in his description of conquering Montagna del Purgatorio Dante wrote openly about mountain ascent. The original prototype of the mount of Purgatorio is probably Pietra di Bismantova in the Apennines. Dante’s work appears to be the first description of mountain climbing in the history of world literature and precedes Petrarch’s famous text about ascending Mount Ventoux by twenty years.

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