Jiang says Piccarda is someone the historical Dante knew in real life, showing that the poem mixes mythic figures with contemporaries from Dante's own world.
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"someone that dante the historical figure knew in real life okay so for other divine comedy there are mythical mythical figures but they're also..."
"...thing other than summoning virgil that he could have done in real life if dante met beatrice's husband so the historically she married she..."
"...because they're like looking for a way to control in the real life the elites are like uh enjoy your poverty because you're gonna..."
"...tries to then mirror what he wants actually in reality in real life he wants this fame right yes and he but he gets..."
"...is doing is he's listing a lot of people from his real life okay and it's a lot of people from his real life..."
"Okay, so he lists a lot of people from his real life, right? And you can imagine what he's doing is he is in..."
"...the Mona Lisa please? Who's actually seen the Mona Lisa? In real life. Alright. Okay. What is unique about the Mona Lisa? Only the..."
"...okay okay so let us um think of an example from real life okay all right um yes because by uh by trick by..."
"...the thing about literature is you can always apply it to real life and it has to make sense okay does that make sense..."
"...And I, for some reason, have my own Beatrice in my real life. Like a girl who I'm super in love with, who is..."
"bit while you're alive in real life exactly you understand okay right so you can actually imagine yourself taking a hike and looking at..."
"...they tear each other apart. Um, one of Dante's enemies from real life, Philippine, Argentina, he falls into this lake and, and the, and..."
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