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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And he to me, why heaven turns our backs against itself, you are to know. But first, she is called Ego Fui, successor Petri...."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "And he to me, why heaven turns our backs against itself, you are to know. But first, she is called Ego Fui, successor Petri...."
The canto presents Pope Adrian as learning only after becoming Roman shepherd that worldly advancement and papal magnificence do not bring rest, and that avarice is purged by forcing the soul's gaze back toward the earth it wrongly loved.
Jiang glosses Adrian as a pope who climbed the ladder of power through ambition and now lies on the ground in repentance on the terrace of greed.
"And he to me, why heaven turns our backs against itself, you are to know. But first, she is called Ego Fui, successor Petri...."
"Just as we did not lift our eyes on high, but set our sight on earthly things instead, so justice here impels our eyes..."
"...in a terrace of greed or avarice, and they're talking to Pope Adrian, who said that as Pope he was extremely ambitious, he did..."
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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