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Dante's name for The Divine Comedy, framed by Jiang as accessible, democratic epic poetry.
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La Commedia
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"...history. When Dante wrote it in about 1300, he called it La Commedia. And the reason why is that at this time in history,..."
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"...embroiled into a lot of these conflicts. Okay? So he wrote La Commedia in order to have people access God. Okay? For the comedy,..."
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"...And that made them distinct from the people of their time. La Commedia is a response then to the Iliad by Virgil. At this..."
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"...what we call structure. The second is paradox. Alright? So imagine La Commedia as not just epic poetry, but as a very complex mathematical..."
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"...very mathematical. It's rigorous. It's mathematical. There's a symmetry to the La Commedia. It doesn't really exist anywhere else in poetry. But what makes..."
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"...for Beatrice. And this becomes the basis of the Divine Comedy, La Commedia. So these are the two major biographical details. You need to..."
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"...for Dante to truly defeat Virgil, which is the point of La Commedia, he wants to destroy the influence and power of the Aeneid,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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