Jiang argues that Dante routinely combines separate myths and expects a highly educated fourteenth-century readership to recognize the links.
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Dante readership
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"Okay? So... The archaeologists believe that the Proto -Indo -Europeans lived in the steppes of modern -day Ukraine. And they spread around the world..."
"This is the 14th century. Obviously, you have to be very well educated to read Dante. So everyone knows the mythology of Romulus and..."
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