12. Purgatory X, XI, XII, XVI, XVII
Channel: openyalecourseselect
Date: 11/12/2012

In Purgatorio XVII, a canto which is at the centre of Purgatory and of the whole Comedy, Dante addresses an apostrophe to the imagination. The poet describes this faculty as a visionary power that is able to rob human beings from the world of the senses, and that allows them to imagine things without any stimuli from the outside reality.