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Jiang reduces the patron passage to Dante praising the benefactor who finances the writing of the Divine Comedy and calling him selfless and great.
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Encomium
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so now he's just sucking up to his patron, right? He's in exile. His patron is the one who is financing the writing..."
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"Okay, so now he's just sucking up to his patron, right? He's in exile. His patron is the one who is financing the writing..."
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"...uh dante the kindly master okay so there are all these encomiums for virgil virgil is the father to dante virgil is the master..."
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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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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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