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Jiang accepts those historical reasons but argues that the timing still matters: the Renaissance came after Dante because the Divine Comedy required about a century to embed itself in Florence's imagination and culture.
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Jiang uses the story of the Library of Alexandria taking Athenian manuscripts and forfeiting a huge silver deposit to show how Ptolemaic Egypt tried to make Alexandria the intellectual capital of the Greek world.
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"because of dante i don't dispute this and if you talk to any academic he'll explain to you these very reasons okay you have..."
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"may be like 50 manuscripts and then maybe 100 manuscripts and then a thousand manuscripts okay but you need time for this artwork to..."
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"...the library of Alexandria. Mainly by going around and collecting original manuscripts. All right? So a representative went to Athens and said, we at..."
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"...we'll take the deposit, 15 talents, and we'll give you the manuscripts. The Egyptians took the manuscripts. Placed it in the library of Alexandria..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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