Jiang's own thesis is that Dante, not the background perfect storm alone, is the secret sauce that sparks the Renaissance.
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"and monasteries are places of theological debate and discussion and they store the classics and this is where a lot of new ideas will..."
"you the scholarly, mainstream argument, and then I will present my argument, which is that Dante is most responsible for the Renaissance, okay? So,..."
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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