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The generous patron household that becomes Dante's refuge in exile and, in Jiang's gloss, finances the poem.
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great Lombard
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...noble Henry, some sparks will have marked the virtue of the Lombard, hard labor and his disregard for silver."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...noble Henry, some sparks will have marked the virtue of the Lombard, hard labor and his disregard for silver."
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"...noble Henry, some sparks will have marked the virtue of the Lombard, hard labor and his disregard for silver."
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"Okay, so now he's just sucking up to his patron, right? He's in exile. His patron is the one who is financing the writing..."
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"...refuge and your first inn shall be the courtesy of the great Lombard. He who on the ladder bears the cross the sacred bird..."
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"the jews betrayal of jesus keep on going and when the lombard tooth bit holy church then charlemagne under the eagle's wings through victories..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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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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