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Jiang frames the last cantos as being written when Dante is near death, exiled from Florence, stripped of property, and uncertain whether posterity will honor the Divine Comedy or condemn it as heresy.
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Posterity
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay. So again, we have a lot to do today and on Saturday. So let me set the scene, okay? Donnie will die in..."
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Jiang says hope means Dante writes as though future readers in distant places and times will love him and preserve his work even though he has no evidence of that outcome.
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"Okay. So again, we have a lot to do today and on Saturday. So let me set the scene, okay? Donnie will die in..."
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"And yes, you are living in nice mansion, sponsored, given. To you by a patron of yours. But you are a beggar. And at..."
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"Okay, so again, let's go back to the image of Dante alone in his room, writing Divine Comedy by himself, while in exile, in..."
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"Say, like, I am the most important person in the world, and I will live forever, eternally. And that hope is what allows him..."
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"...father -in -law or a son -in -law, nor upon their posterity the taint of parasite. Parasite. Parasite. If, they cried, you are wary..."
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"...You can have a local art to which you can produce posterity, but modern art is, in particular, is a commercial art. There's a..."
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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