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For many medieval writers, the image of the Garden of Eden also creates a location for human love and sexuality, often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the ''locus amoenus''. | For many medieval writers, the image of the Garden of Eden also creates a location for human love and sexuality, often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the ''locus amoenus''. | ||
In the ''Divine Comedy'', Dante Alighieri places the Garden at the top of Mt. [[Purgatory]]. Dante, the pilgrim, emerges into the Garden of Eden in Canto 28 of ''Purgatorio''. Here he is told that God gave the Garden of Eden to man "in earnest, or as a pledge of eternal life," but man was only able to dwell there for a short time because he soon fell from grace. In the poem, the Garden of Eden is both human and divine: while it is located on [[earth]] at the top of Mt. Purgatory, it also serves as the gateway to the heavens. | In the ''Divine Comedy'', [[Dante Alighieri]] places the Garden at the top of Mt. [[Purgatory]]. Dante, the pilgrim, emerges into the Garden of Eden in Canto 28 of ''Purgatorio''. Here he is told that God gave the Garden of Eden to man "in earnest, or as a pledge of eternal life," but man was only able to dwell there for a short time because he soon fell from grace. In the poem, the Garden of Eden is both human and divine: while it is located on [[earth]] at the top of Mt. Purgatory, it also serves as the gateway to the heavens. | ||
Much of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' occurs in the Garden of Eden. | Much of Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' occurs in the Garden of Eden. | ||