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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. | ||