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A hollow brass torture device Dante invokes so the reader imagines the flame's punishment as living bodily agony.
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Sicilian bull
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of the perplexing sound that it sent forth even as the sicilian bull that first had bellowed with the cry and this was just..."
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Jiang says Dante uses the Sicilian bull to make the punishment of the flame concretely painful rather than letting the reader treat the image of fire as innocuous.
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"...of the perplexing sound that it sent forth even as the sicilian bull that first had bellowed with the cry and this was just..."
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"...reminding you how painful it is by reminding you of the sicilian bull okay so sicilian bull was this hollow brass uh sculpture and..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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