Gianni Schicchi appears here as an impostor who took another's identity in order to manipulate a will.
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Impostor
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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..."
"...who suffers from leprosy, okay? Their punishment is leprosy. Gianni, the impostor, he sinks his teeth into the leper. What does this signify, do..."
"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..."
"...everyone want to avoid? Lepers, okay? So, the punishment for this impostor is he's forced to just randomly eat people, including those who are..."
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