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Jiang primes the class to notice that Statius worships Virgil more intensely than Sordello did, yet Virgil will react in the opposite way.
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Sordello
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Jiang frames the contrast with Sordello as the key puzzle: Virgil once loved admiration, but here he wants Statius to stop revering him.
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The next read-aloud introduces Sordello as a fellow Mantuan whose shared homeland is enough to produce an immediate embrace with Virgil.
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The quoted passage presents Virgil as saying he is deprived of heaven solely for lack of faith.
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Sordello treats Virgil as the great Latin poet and bows before him, which gives Virgil the recognition he has been craving.
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The quoted canto establishes a purgatorial rule that upward progress stops at night even though souls may still move around below.
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"This is Virgil. Sudello is a troubadour, which is to say he is a love, he's a poet of the quality love tradition and..."
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"He is not happy about this. Okay, so let's read Canto 21, okay?"
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"where sudolo meets virgil virgil tells him right away i'm virgil and so i was wow man i'm your biggest fan and then sudol..."
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"Uh, let's, let's keep on reading 52 as long as it is stay, we'll make as much headway as possible. He answered, but our..."
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"country was and who we were at which my gentle guide began Mantua and that spirit who had been so solitary rose from his..."
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"So, um, Virgil has met on the poet Sodelo, who is actually a very important poet. He has something called a. Troubadour, which is..."
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"...and gracious welcomings had been repeated three and four times then sordello drew himself back and asked but who are you before the spirits..."
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"...and does not believe saying it is is not so did sordello seem and then he bent his brow returned to virgil humbly and..."
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"okay sorry so let's let's let's figure out this okay so sordello says oh my god you are him you are the virgil um..."
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"...impeded by others or his own lack of power and good sordello as his finger traced along the ground said once the sun has..."
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"while the horizon has enclosed the day at which my lord as if in under in wonder said lead us then to there where..."
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"...you just you're saying that virgil's a humble guy but when sordello kisses the bowels before him virgil's ecstatic right there's a paradox here..."
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