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Jiang identifies Cavalcante as someone Dante knew well and uses the encounter to open a story about rivalry, poetry, and Florentine factional life.
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Cavalcante
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Jiang reads Cavalcante's question about Guido as a rivalry question: if Dante can make the journey through poetry, Guido should be at least his equal.
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Jiang says Dante knowingly lets Cavalcante believe Guido is dead instead of simply telling the truth that he is alive in Florence.
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Jiang reads Cavalcante's question about his son as proof of paternal love and says Dante's implied answer punishes the father a second time.
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"and then someone overhears them this is kava kante who is uh someone that um dawning knew very well okay kava kante and kava..."
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"parents and my party so that i had to scatter them twice over if they were driven out i answered him they still returned..."
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"what's going on um dante is talking to someone and then someone else overhears and this person is cover context so sorry i i..."
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"dante uh says line 61 i answered my own powers have not brought me he who awaits me there leads me through here perhaps..."
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"so imagine what's going on cover kante asked dante where is my son and dante is like um god disdains him and then cover..."
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"great life back in florence that's why he couldn't be here right instead dante kind of lies and says well um it's your son..."
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"that's a generous explanation but um it's you're still lying you know he's alive back in florence"
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"It's like killing him twice. Because, like, your only consolation if you're burning in hell is, well, at least my son is doing well..."
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"OK. So now Donny's left Cavalcante because Cavalcante's in despair, right? And now he's talking to Ferranita. And Ferranita is also contemporary of Dante...."
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"...is so embarrassed. He tells Ferenita, I can't go back to Cavalcante and apologize, right? But could you do it for me, please? OK...."
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"...to apologize, right? So remember the scene where Dante lies to Cavalcante and says, your son is dead and burning in hell. And he,..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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