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Jiang says Dante's poetry is designed to be read and spoken aloud, so you cannot really understand it unless you hear it voiced.
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Jiang says the beauty of Dante becomes newly audible in Italian and treats that audible beauty as evidence of Dante's greatness.
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A student argues that the Italian sounds gentler and softer than the English, so it does not merely describe love but makes the listener feel it.
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Jiang says the universe is energy, vibration, and love, and that Dante's Italian is built to make the listener vibrate in tune with that structure.
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Jiang says reading the Italian matters because its construction can draw the reader closer to the source by making the body and soul vibrate with the universe.
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The student highlights Dante's ABA-BCB end-rhyme pattern and sing-song movement as part of what English readers miss.
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Jiang says Dante could only have written the passage because of his love for Beatrice, and he hears the Italian vibrations as almost erotic or sexual.
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Aurelia agrees that the Italian carries stronger sibilance and sonic texture than the English rendering.
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"...like that, okay? And again, why it's important to hear the Italian is it's designed to be read and spoken a lot. So, you..."
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"Oh, wow. That's beautiful. Wow. Okay. This is why Dante is the greatest poet in the world, okay? You can now hear the beauty,..."
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"...talks about love. It does not make you feel it. The Italian version does."
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"...and love, okay? This is why it's important to read the Italian, because when you read the Italian, it's constructed in a way so..."
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"Yeah, I would actually like maybe whenever to hear more, because we don't get the opportunity to take advantage of the end rhyme scheme,..."
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"...And, like, if you hear the language, if you hear the Italian, it's almost like they're making love. It doesn't make sense. The, this,..."
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"...sibilance, I feel like, comes through a lot more. Right. The Italian."
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"It's exact. He created Italian, okay? This is the guy who created the modern Italian language. Yes. Okay, yes."
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"I'm guessing not. My guess is it hasn't, but you would know better than I do."
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"So, it's a different, it's different than modern Italian. Like, it sounds more, it's, it's, it almost sounds like the dialect that you would..."
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"...said this two days ago, but, like, unless you truly understand Italian, it's almost impossible to understand it by a comedy, all right? Yes?"
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"I'm pretty sure there's some rhymed translations in English, but they are pretty bad. But I, I think what it's called, but..."
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