Glossary
In the quoted canto, Fortune is the providential minister who shifts worldly goods across peoples and times according to a hidden order.
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Fortune
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...how brief a sport of all those goods that are in fortune's care for which the tribe of men contend and brawl for all..."
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The same reading defines Fortune as a providential minister who redistributes worldly goods across peoples and generations beyond ordinary human control.
evidence
In the quoted passage, Dante asks his ancestor to tell him plainly what fortune approaches, describing earlier warnings as grievous but saying foreknowledge lets the arrow land more gently.
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"...how brief a sport of all those goods that are in fortune's care for which the tribe of men contend and brawl for all..."
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"that human reason can't prevent just so when people rules one languishes obeying the decision she has given which like a serpent in the..."
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"Like Phaethon, one who still makes fathers wary of sons, when he had heard insinuations, and he, to be assured, came to Clemene, such..."
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"heals souls and when descending to the dead world, what I heard about my future life were grievous words. Although against the blows of..."
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"...class, what we did discuss is Darnay has particular hatred towards fortune tellers. He has a place in hell for them, and he thinks..."
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"Because if you think about it, if Tiresias, the fortune tellers, didn't provide these fortunes, then Oedipus would not have had the tragedy that..."
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"...being i'm going backwards uh in your three questions but about fortune and that brings us to the role of the witches i think..."
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"...simple life seed it alone, Henry of England, he has better fortune with his progeny. He who is seated lowest on the ground and..."
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"...I rejoiced far more at others' hurts than my own good fortune. Unless you should think I have deceived you, hear and judge, if..."
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"...a rock. She with her other burden drowned herself. And after fortune turned against the pride of Troy, who had dared also that the..."
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"...always at your side, should it so happen once again that fortune brings you where men would quarrel in this fashion, to want to..."
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"...story. Greek. I am. I don't deny it. Now that first fortune may have made me a man of misery, but wicked as she..."
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