# Peter the Sinner — The Divine Comedy character guide

> Peter the Sinner in The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0092-canto-xxi

## Who they are

Benedictine monk, appears in the Heaven of Saturn.

## In the story

### [Canto XXI: The Seventh Heaven (Saturn) – The Celestial Stairway and St. Peter Damiano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_divine_comedy_se/chapters/canto-xxi)

Peter Damiano identifies himself as having been called 'Peter the Sinner' in the monastery of Our Lady on the Adriatic.

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