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To celebrate the seventh centenary of Dante’s death in 2021, AdI plans to devote its 39th monographic volume to the connections between Christ’s violent sacrifice—the sine qua non for Everyman’s salvation—and the poetic rendering of the Pilgrim’s journey from Hell to Purgatory and Paradise. To this purpose, the editors of the volume plan to organize several sessions at national and international conventions on the volume’s topic and welcomes paper proposals on the following issues: the torments of the damned in Inferno as a parody of Christ’s salvific sacrifice; the sufferings of the purgatorial souls, who, contrary to those in Hell, shed no blood, as the manifestation of their full acceptance of Christ’s Redemption; and the singing, dancing, and splendor of the blessed in Heaven as the glorification of Christ’s redemptive death. Although not sharing in the torments of the souls in Hell, the Pilgrim actively participates in the purifications of Purgatory and in the joy of the blessed. Dante the Poet plies his poetic craft to describe appropriately the spiritual condition of the souls and the Pilgrim’s journey in the afterlife. Dante the Poet does not eschew—in fact, he embraces it realistically and/or metaphorically—the language of violence needed to narrate the experience of the souls and of the Pilgrim in his threefold journey. Thus, for instance, the two terms which Capaneus employs to describe realistically his own defeat by Jove, folgore and percuotere, are the same that Dante the Poet uses to describe metaphorically the Pilgrim’s vision of the Triune God in Paradise. Also, word(s) and silence(s) characterize the souls’ experiences and the Pilgrim’s voyage. Thus, Dante’s name—which, like Christ’s, is never written or uttered in Inferno—is pronounced once only, by Beatrice, in an accusatory manner in Purgatorio, and never in Paradiso, where his name is known to all the blessed and loved by them, thus becoming synonymous with the Augustinian definition of verbum: “cum amore notitia” (“knowledge with love,” De Trinitate 9: 10.15).