His evidence for this is literary realism: the Virgil in the Divine Comedy exhibits contradictions, nuance, subtlety, quirks, and stable psychology that exceed extrapolation from the Aeneid alone.
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Literary realism
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"Okay. That's a very large explanation. I don't think that's, that's what's happening. I don't think he's creating Virgil. I think he's summoning Virgil...."
"So he understands this guy's peculiarities. Right. Does that make sense? There's certain things, there's certain quirks that like, you cannot imagine it. You..."
"Yeah. I think Don has summoned Virgil here. It's very hard for me to explain how this could work otherwise. Okay. Because like, we're..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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