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Jiang proposes that Dante's praise of real noble families is partly practical: as an exile he is also cultivating donors and patrons by elevating them inside the poem.
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Families
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "tidings of Valdemarbera or the lands nearby, tell them to me, for there I once was mighty. Curado Malaspino was my name. I'm not..."
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Jiang says this bolgia punishes people who caused civil discord, warfare, or splits between families and communities.
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The quoted Paradiso passage presents old Florence as a more coherent civic order tied to older families and customs.
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Jiang says China's elite is ruled by families rather than secret societies, and he contrasts bloodline families with secret societies by saying the latter are driven by eschatological projects.
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Jiang says China lacks a street-level culture of mutual respect among strangers, while families remain tightly bonded, making the country a fragile clan-based society rather than a nation glued together by broad empathy.
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"tidings of Valdemarbera or the lands nearby, tell them to me, for there I once was mighty. Curado Malaspino was my name. I'm not..."
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"rams four feet before this gracious opinion squarely nailed into your mind with stouter nails than others' talk provides if the divine decree has..."
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"...he needs to make a living, right? So basically by including families that he knows from Florence into this divine company, he's also soliciting..."
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"...hell uh these are people who've caused civil discord war between families okay and the first two people we see being punished are muhammad..."
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"...too, will soon have vanished. Then, if you should hear of families undone, you will find nothing strange or difficult in that, since even..."
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"A victim, these were the families and others with them. The Florence that I saw in such repose that there was nothing to have..."
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"...elite is not ruled by secret societies. It's ruled by certain families, okay? This is very different because families don't have eschatologies. They have..."
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"You you know, you know, it's you know, China is a very different society from America and I'll give an example where you know..."
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"...each other in China strangers cannot as empathy to each other families can though You know families are very much tight -knit Network, you..."
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