The reading presents envy as bound up with a culture where courtesy and love have decayed, noble houses have failed, and shared goods are no longer understood as shareable.
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Courtesy
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Jiang says Virgil's disappearance is strange on multiple practical grounds: Beatrice owes Virgil a favor, Virgil should want to witness Dante's reunion, and ordinary courtesy would suggest handing Dante over directly.
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"He sells their flesh while they're still alive, then, like an ancient beast, he turns to slaughter to deprive many of life himself of..."
"Know, therefore, that I was Guido del Duca. My blood was so afire with envy that when I had seen a man becoming happy,..."
"...knights, labors and leisure to which we once were urged by courtesy and love, where hearts now host perversity."
"that Beatrice Was the one who asked Virgil To take Dante on this journey So Beatrice owes him a favor And you would think..."
"The solution to which we once were urged by courtesy and love where hearts now host perversity. So love, I would say. Yeah."
"...yet i did not open them for him and it was courtesy to show him rudeness ah genoese a people strange to every constraint..."
"...and then he said, now wait, to these one must show courtesy. And were it not the nature of this place for shafts of..."
"Tell us, if courtesy and valor still abide within our city as they did when we were there, or have they disappeared completely? For..."
"...spirit. To this, my praise of such a paladin, the glowing courtesy and the discerning language of Thomas urged me on and stirred, with..."
"...yourself. Your first refuge and your first inn shall be the courtesy of the great Lombard. He who on the ladder bears the cross..."
"...Islam, but all they resulted in was the exchange of diplomatic courtesies, dynamic intermarriages, and shifting military alliances based on mutual self -interest. Relying..."
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