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Framed here as the aristocratic, noble faction in Florence, supported by the Holy Roman Emperor.
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Ghibellines
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...at this time Florence is in a civil war between the Ghibellines, who are aristocrats, nobility, and the Guelphs. The Guelphs are merchants. They..."
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Jiang frames the struggle between Ghibellines and Guelphs as class warfare between aristocratic nobility and merchant middle-class forces in Florence.
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Jiang says that around the year 1300 the Guelfs and Ghibellines are at war, Dante belongs to the Guelf side, and the later split between Black and White Guelfs leads to Dante's exile.
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"...at this time Florence is in a civil war between the Ghibellines, who are aristocrats, nobility, and the Guelphs. The Guelphs are merchants. They..."
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"...in this in history this is about the year 1300 the ghibellines and the guelphs are at war with each other the guelphs um..."
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"they're fighting each other for power and at first the whites win and exile the black wells the black wells then say to say..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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