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Purgatorio
Second part of Dante's Divine Comedy Purgatorio A page of the Purgatorio at the Laurentian LibraryAuthorDante AlighieriLanguageItalianSeriesDivine ComedyGenrenarrative poemPublication datec. 1321Publication placeItalyTextPurgatorio at Wikisource Part of a series onChristian mysticism Theology and philosophy Apophatic Ascetical Cataphatic Catholic spirituality Hellenistic Mystical theology Neoplatonic Henosis Practices Monasticism Asceticism Mendicant Stylite Eastern New Silence Spiritual direction Meditation Meditation Lectio Divina Invoking of Mystic Saints Active asceticism Contemplation Hesychasm Jesus Prayer Quietism Stages of Christian perfection Hesychia Divinization Catharsis Theosis Kenosis Spiritual dryness Religious ecstasy Passive asceticism Abstinence Esoteric Charismatic Martinism People (by era or century) Antiquity Ancient African Origen Thomasines Gregory of Nyssa Pseudo-Dionysius Desert Fathers Paul of Thebes Anthony the Great Arsenius the Great Poemen Macarius of Egypt Moses the Black Syncletica Athanasius John Chrysostom Hilarion John Cassian 11th · 12th Bernard of Clairvaux Guigo II Hildegard of Bingen Symeon the New Theologian Sava I of Serbia 13th · 14th Dom