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The poem presents Boniface VIII as a corrupt pope who recruits Guido's fraudulent intellect for war against fellow Christians and tries to neutralize the sin with advance absolution.
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Church corruption
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The canto 19 reading introduces simony as the sale of sacred things for gold and silver, focusing Dante's anger on ecclesiastical corruption.
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Jiang interprets Peter's outcry as saying that the Vatican has become the seat of Satan.
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Jiang says Dante's answer to rampant evil in the Catholic Church is not miraculous intervention but the composition of the Divine Comedy as a public act of witness.
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Jiang glosses the line as a lament spoken to God: Peter is asking why God lies concealed instead of acting against corruption.
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Jiang interprets the two 'princes' as Saint Francis and Saint Dominic, raised up so the Church's mission can continue despite corruption and decay.
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Asked about Dante's view of the Cathars, Jiang says Dante probably accepted the official view that they were heretical, but that the poem's deeper concerns were fraternal violence and Church corruption.
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Jiang says the Protestant movement was not a sudden novelty because opposition to the Catholic Church had always existed, especially around two complaints: the Church was too worldly and it blocked direct access to God.
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"me my deeds were not those of the lion but those of the fox the wiles and secret ways i knew them all and..."
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"as constantine on mount soracti to cure his leprosy sought out sylvester so this one sought me out as his instructor to ease the..."
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"Canto 19. As Simon Magus, O his sad disciples, rapacious ones who take the things of God that ought to be the brides of..."
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"first rich father and while I sang such notes to him whether it was his indignation or his conscience I do indeed believe it..."
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"riches but to acquire this life of joyousness sixes and pious urban and calixtus after much lamentation shed their blood we did not want..."
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"again it's peter and he's and he's saying um and he's saying okay that the vatican is now the seat of satan right so..."
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"but we can talk about that after class if you want yeah okay um so we can go on for years about the contributions..."
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"tell the world right divine comedy that's why you 'rerehere that's why god elevated you even in your body it doesn't make sense okay..."
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"It's a Lamont. It's a Lamont. Yes, it's you, God. Okay, okay. Yes, okay. All right. Okay? Let's keep on going."
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"no guys it's a catholic church right the bride of god yeah yeah okay that's a heretic all right the bride of god is..."
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"Okay, so, we will never know what Dante thought of the Cathars, okay? Um, he knows what happened, but he probably believes that they..."
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"in the Catholic Church yes okay all right so that's true but um something that you guys don't appreciate is there was always opposition..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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