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Dante wrote from a world of Italian city-state rivalry, papal pressure, imperial pressure, family factions, vengeance, hatred, and war, making escape from that cycle the central question of The Divine Comedy.
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The Medici use artistic and architectural patronage to turn banking wealth into legitimacy and make Florence a cultural capital.
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Dante's noble birth made him a participant in northern Italian factional conflict, and his life experience of rivalry and hatred shaped the political background of The Divine Comedy.
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The Medici use artistic and architectural patronage to turn banking wealth into legitimacy and make Florence a cultural capital.
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The Scientific Revolution's main idea is the institutionalization of doubt: asking questions, debating, and experimenting are divine because heaven itself models debate.
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"Okay? So good and evil are intertwined together. You can never have good unless you first experience evil. Good is not the absence of..."
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"So Dante was in Florence. But there are also some major city -states like Venice and Genoa. Okay? And they're all competing against each..."
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"...in this conflict. So the northern Italian city -states, which include Florence, Milan, Genoa, and Venice, they have two major political factions. This is..."
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"...conflict between the Ghibellines and the Guelphs, and his exile from Florence, and his hatred of the Catholic Church. There will also be a..."
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"...emerge. Okay? Four popes will emerge. They will eventually take over Florence and create their own monarchy. As we discussed, if you're a merchant..."
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"The most famous church in Florence is called the Santa Maria dei Fori. It's still there. You guys can still visit it. It's the..."
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"So these are some of his paintings. He is a remarkable genius. He is what we call a polymath, which means that he dabbles..."
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"Corruption is a huge issue but also orthodoxy. And, so the idea of the Protestant Reformation is that you can access God through the..."
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"Where's Galileo from? Florence. Right? So, Galileo grew up immersed in the divine comedy. All right? These things aren't accidental. Okay? Right? All right...."
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"...so he wrote it in Tuscan, which is the language of Florence, where he lived. Latin was the language of the elite in Europe...."
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"...again, this is from Wikipedia, and when Dante is exiled from Florence, he never returns to Florence."
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"...so he wrote it in Tuscan, which is the language of Florence, where he lived. Latin was the language of the elite in Europe...."
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Dante is not offering a church-approved tour of the afterlife.
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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