Purgatory part 3 (Cantos 23 – 33) 6/9 Progressing through Purgatory the poets meet a woman called Matilda (Canto 28)who begins to introduce them to the ideas behind the goal of everyone which is to enter heaven, where she explains lies a serene contemplative life; it is no longer a world of action where people can do right or wrong. By Canto 30 everything has changed around Dante. In a brilliant scene he meets Beatrice for the first time and in the same moment he finds that Virgil who has been his great support and interpreter of what is around him, has gone. It is a wonderful moment but also quite frightening to Dante who is not sure how Beatrice is going to treat him. AM110SB20 2020 dur: 2hrs 19 mins