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Jiang dates the composition frame by saying Dante finished the Divine Comedy in 1321, set the story in 1300, and uses the ancestor's speech to forecast the 1302 exile from inside that earlier narrative moment.
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...interesting is that the Divine Comedy is set in the year 1300, Easter Sunday."
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"...interesting is that the Divine Comedy is set in the year 1300, Easter Sunday."
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"...to him, okay? But he sets his character in the year 1300, and then his grandfather will tell Dante what will happen in the..."
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"...the Catholic Church, at this time in history, by the year 1300?"
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"...time. It's not so radical for us. But for the year 1300, this is revolutionary idea. Like God is pure love. Pure love is..."
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"...virgil right and it's absurd because donnie lived around the year 1300 and virgil lived the year about like you know during the time..."
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"...jesus but but a generation before okay so we're talking like 1300 years difference how is this possible uh yes uh yeah you know..."
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"...power to protect ordinary citizens from a corrupt predatory establishment in 1300 he was elected as a ruling minister of florence and immediately passed..."
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"Napoleon. Who else? Hitler. Hitler. Okay, guys, guys, this is year 1300, okay? So let's not go too far. They don't even know who..."
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"...about is a prophecy, okay? So this is, again, the year 1300. Dante will finish this in 1321, but he's right in the year..."
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"...right? Okay. Okay, all right. So let's go to the year 1300, okay? And you are a Catholic believer. What do the Church Fathers..."
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"...is it that we're given bodies? And again, in the year 1300, the Catholic Church teaches you that we have bodies because we are..."
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"...Why are you shocked by this? I'm talking about the year 1300, okay? Why would you be shocked by this, yes? Because they're all..."
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