Jiang frames this second half of the canto as a prophetic, ironic lament in which Dante denounces Italy's sin and appeals toward divine justice.
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Divine justice
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The thief's self-understanding may minimize the act while it is being committed, but Jiang says Fucci is enraged because he experienced the theft as a perfect crime that only God disrupted.
The quoted shade says his soul wanted to ascend earlier, but that motion was opposed by a divinely just desire to continue penance before climbing.
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"...this he's being very ironic and um he's almost appealing to divine justice and saying that italy um is terrible it's full of sin..."
"don't think it's a bad thing, but how you, when you do it, you probably don't realize how bad it is. Like we've had..."
"He's pretty ecstatic, man. Okay. Right. Because not only has he gotten away with it, but now he's completely innocent. Do you understand? So..."
"...by longing to do penance as ones to sin, instilled by divine justice."
"And I, who have lain in the suffering five hundred years in war, just now have felt my free will for a better threshold...."
"...Holy Roman Empire, Hugh Cabat, criticizes his own family and demands divine justice, divine retribution for all their crimes. Second point is like, as..."
"...by longing to do penance as once to sin instilled by divine justice. And I who have lain in this suffering five hundred years..."
"...that will was opposed by longing to do penance instilled by divine justice. Why are souls suffering in purgatory? What do these three lines..."
"there divine justice torments Attila, he who was such a scourge upon the earth, and Pyrrhus sextus to eternity. It melts the tears that..."
"...by longing to do penance, as one should sin instilled by divine justice. Okay? So, the people in Purgatory, are those who have committed..."
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