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Guido's self-description contrasts lionlike force with foxlike cunning, defining him through strategic fraud rather than open strength.
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Guido
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Jiang identifies Cavalcante as someone Dante knew well and uses the encounter to open a story about rivalry, poetry, and Florentine factional life.
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Jiang reads Cavalcante's question about Guido as a rivalry question: if Dante can make the journey through poetry, Guido should be at least his equal.
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Jiang says Dante knowingly lets Cavalcante believe Guido is dead instead of simply telling the truth that he is alive in Florence.
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Jiang uses Dante and Guido's poetic rivalry as another case of meritocratic pressure: the closer the rivals, the more likely one is to tear down the other's ascent.
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"me who you are do not be harder than i've been with you that in the world your name may still endure after the..."
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"me my deeds were not those of the lion but those of the fox the wiles and secret ways i knew them all and..."
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"and then someone overhears them this is kava kante who is uh someone that um dawning knew very well okay kava kante and kava..."
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"parents and my party so that i had to scatter them twice over if they were driven out i answered him they still returned..."
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"what's going on um dante is talking to someone and then someone else overhears and this person is cover context so sorry i i..."
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"...awaits me there leads me through here perhaps to one your guido did disdain his words the nature of his punishment these had already..."
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"so imagine what's going on cover kante asked dante where is my son and dante is like um god disdains him and then cover..."
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"great life back in florence that's why he couldn't be here right instead dante kind of lies and says well um it's your son..."
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"that's a generous explanation but um it's you're still lying you know he's alive back in florence"
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"winner takes all unforgiving culture right well dante and guido are competing to be the best poet in italy and right now who who's..."
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"...acclaim. The former only keeps a shadowed fame. So did one Guido, from the other rests the glory of our tongue, and he perhaps..."
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"Know, therefore, that I was Guido del Duca. My blood was so afire with envy that when I had seen a man becoming happy,..."
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