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The prayer Piccarda sings just before vanishing from Dante's sight in the read-aloud passage.
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Ave Maria
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"on reading this said she then began to sing ave maria and while singing vanished as a weighty thing will vanish in deep water..."
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"...let's keep on reading this said she then began to sing ave maria while singing banished as a weighty thing will vanish in deep..."
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"Well, it's not. So he recorded an interview with Maria Bartiromo from Fox News. And I think it's supposed to air, I believe, at..."
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"...So the royal families of Austria and Russia became his patrons. Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria -Hungary, became a friend of his, okay?"
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"...stole the last election in 2024. um so as you know maria uh karina machado who is an opportunity opposition leader in venezuela she..."
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"...Trump administration supporting very particular kinds of people. Uh, you mentioned Maria Karina Machado, she was just on a CBS and her perspective is..."
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"...dictator, Nicholas Maduro in an exclusive interview with Margaret Brennan today, Maria Karina Machado, Venezuelan. Opposition. Leader and Nobel peace prize winner weighed in..."
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"...know if I'm sold on it because of, what's her name, Maria Machado? Yes. So she was given the Nobel Peace Prize by the..."
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"...before the Yemenite come and conquer them. Okay? So, this is Maria Gumbutas, who is an American Lutheranian anthropologist. And she's the first to..."
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"...systems and they had symbols. Okay? And this is something that Maria Cumbuentes has done a lot of research in. Okay? I won't go..."
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"The most famous church in Florence is called the Santa Maria dei Fori. It's still there. You guys can still visit it. It's the..."
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"Okay, so last class, we talked about Maria Kumbotas, who is an anthropologist, and she makes the argument that for the longest time, for..."
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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