Jiang interprets the Canto 15 embankment description as Dante saying the geography of hell is also a coded description of Italy at that historical moment.
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"Canto 15. Now one of the hard borders bears us forward. The river mist forms shadows overhead and shields the shores in water from..."
"Okay, so here in these lines, what Dante's revealing is that the geography of hell matches that of the geography of Italy, okay? Right?..."
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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