Gianni Schicchi appears here as an impostor who took another's identity in order to manipulate a will.
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Gianni Schicchi
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "He can't. She came to sin with him by falsely taking another shape upon herself. Just as the other phantom who goes there had..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "He can't. She came to sin with him by falsely taking another shape upon herself. Just as the other phantom who goes there had..."
Key Notes
Jiang defines canto 30 as a zone of falsifiers that includes alchemists, impostors, counterfeiters, false witnesses, and related figures such as Sinon, Master Adam, Gianni Schicchi, and Myrrha.
Jiang treats Gianni Schicchi's attack on a leper as meaningful because at that time lepers were precisely the people everyone wanted to avoid, so the impostor is forced into degrading contact.
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"He can't. She came to sin with him by falsely taking another shape upon herself. Just as the other phantom who goes there had..."
"Okay, all right, so this is a very complicated canto, okay? There are lots of individuals and there's a lot going on, okay? So..."
"And so the two people who have an argument are Sinon and Master Adam, right? Master Adam is a counterfeiter. And Sinon is a..."
"So what is he doing here? All right. So let's look at certain things that happens, okay? So the outcome is... So, you have..."
"Yes? So, the impostor basically is a person who tries to steal somebody else's identity. And so this, you know, appropriate punishment or educational..."
"Okay, yeah. So, the thing, though, is that the alchemist is a leper, okay? And at this time in history, who does everyone want..."
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