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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · prayers for the dead · manfredi of sicily · limits of human reason · judgment, heaven, and hell · doctrines of purgatorial waiting
Usually: dialogue (1) · crisis of belief (1)
At the mountain foot, Virgil and Dante ascend beside a steep rock, debate limits of reason, meet Manfredi who explains his death and purgatorial waiting, including prayer’s power to shorten penance.
And what the foremost does the others do, Huddling themselves against her, if she stop, Simple and quiet and the wherefore know not; So moving to approach us thereupon I saw the leader of that fortunate flock, Modest in face and dignified in gait. As soon as those in the advance saw broken The light upon the ground at my right side, So that from me the shadow reached the rock, They stopped, and bac…