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Jiang extends the birth allegory into pedagogy by saying that reading the Iliad in Latin can itself be imagined as Virgil giving birth to the reader.
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Jiang argues that Dante's deference to Virgil is not fake humility alone but reflects the medieval educational world in which Virgil was memorized word for word and treated as the standard of eloquence.
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A student proposes that Italian's Latin-style endings make rhyme easier and give the language a smoother flow than English.
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Latin, priestly authorization, and hierarchical bureaucracy are treated as mechanisms that tell ordinary people theology is not for them.
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He distinguishes The Commedia from the later title The Divine Comedy and says Dante's choice of comic-low vernacular Tuscan over high Latin turns Tuscan into the Italian peninsula's official literary language.
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Jiang defends Pax Judaica as a Latin convention and says the phrase would not be Pax Israelica.
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"...birth is an allegory for Dante reading the Iliad, right? In Latin. Cause at this time, everyone memorized the Iliad in Latin and it's..."
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"comedy and again we've been a paradise so we know exactly what this cosmology is um this is year 1300 and donna is like..."
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"...memorize it word for word. And that's just how you learn Latin. And if you were educated, you had to speak Latin the way..."
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"Um, so, uh, something, I think Italian is called, uh, Latin's master child, so, basically, Italian is really close to Latin, and I've learned..."
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"Right. So I'm using a Latin convention. And so the Latin convention would be Pax Judaica. It would not be Pax Israelica."
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"...need to know is, the official language of the Church was Latin. During Church services, the priest would give sermons in Latin. The Bible..."
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"...it. At this point in European history, the high language is Latin. And what Dante does, which is very interesting, is, he, he chooses..."
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"And this is the, of course, the local language of Florence, where he is from. And because The Commedia is so wonderfully produced, Tuscan..."
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"...is going to meet Statius and Statius is, he is a Latin poet, okay? A Latin epic poet, very similar to Virgil, okay? And..."
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"...where the lesser presence clasps he said a glory of the latins you through whom our tongue revealed this power you eternal honor of..."
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"...lucky because I studied the Aeneid when I was 18 in Latin, just luckily. Yes. And I, for some reason, have my own Beatrice..."
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"...You guys don't learn this at school. It was just for Latin translation. So, okay, so you've got parts of it. The major parts...."
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