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The canto presents Pope Adrian as learning only after becoming Roman shepherd that worldly advancement and papal magnificence do not bring rest, and that avarice is purged by forcing the soul's gaze back toward the earth it wrongly loved.
Statius says he was not greedy but excessively wasteful, and Jiang reads Dante as treating opposite extremes as morally linked enough to share punishment.
The quoted Ciacco passage treats Florence as a city consumed by envy, pride, and avarice, with factional bloodshed and very few just men.
The canto reading presents avarice as a divided economy of hoarding and squandering, dramatized by souls crashing weights into one another while accusing each other of opposite excesses.
In the quoted exchange, Virgil says love kindled by virtue answers itself in another and then asks how Statius could ever have harbored avarice despite his cultivated wisdom.
Statius explains that the fifth terrace punished not avarice but prodigality, its opposite, and that opposite faults can be purged together when one sin is countered by its contrary.
"...Now, as you see, I am punished here for that. When avarice enacts here, declared, is the purgation of converted souls, the mountain has..."
"...things instead, so justice here impels our eyes toward earth. As avarice annulled and announced the love of any other good, and thus we..."
"oh 22 now yeah sure kanto 22 the angel now has left behind us he who had directed us to six terrorists having erased..."
"...see their green wither thus i join those who pay for avarice in my words but i am going to go now into a..."
"the sun lit life the name your citizens gave me was choco and for the damning sin of gluttony as you can see i..."
"its enemies however much they weep indignantly two men are just but no one listens to them three Sparks that set on fire every..."
"so even as waves that break above charybdis each shattering the other when they meet so must the spirits here dance their round dance..."
"...of hair were clergymen and popes and cardinals with him whom avarice works its excess and i to him master among this kind i..."
"...was it that you found within your breast a place for avarice when you possessed the wisdom you had nurtured with such care?"
"...my circle was fifth, that in the life I once lived, avarice had been my sin. Know then that I was far from avarice...."
"...see their grain wither. Thus, I joined those who pay for avarice in my purgation, though what brought me here was prodigality, its opposite...."
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
The lecture begins with Augustine's dusty human nature and ends with Virgil fleeing the proof that Dante's love is stronger than obedience.
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