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Jiang links the memorable musical force of Dante's poetry to Tuscan becoming the official language of Italy over time.
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Tuscan
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...can sing it to yourself, right? That's why, um, this became Tuscan, became the official language of, of Italy over time, okay? Okay. So,..."
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Jiang says the Divine Comedy is an act of divine inspiration and that reading it aloud in Tuscan lets the reader channel Dante himself.
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He distinguishes The Commedia from the later title The Divine Comedy and says Dante's choice of comic-low vernacular Tuscan over high Latin turns Tuscan into the Italian peninsula's official literary language.
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He says Dante writes in Tuscan and calls the poem The Commedia partly to avoid the Latin-writing Catholic Church, which would have burned the manuscript if it understood the revolutionary argument.
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"...can sing it to yourself, right? That's why, um, this became Tuscan, became the official language of, of Italy over time, okay? Okay. So,..."
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"...and the universe and only by reading aloud the italian the tuscan you experience this for yourself okay because when you do so you..."
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"...is very interesting, is, he, he chooses to write it in Tuscan."
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"...he is from. And because The Commedia is so wonderfully produced, Tuscan will become the official language of the Italian peninsula, okay? So, today..."
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"...writing to who is his audience um so he's writing in Tuscan rather than Latin and he calls it the Commedia so I think..."
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"...would tempt me, he answered then. For you whose speech is Tuscan seem to know nothing of the good Gerardo. There's no other name..."
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"...pity for my burden. I was Italian, son of a great Tuscan. My father was Guglielmo Albobrandesco. I do not know if you have..."
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"...that which you desire most, if you should ever tread the Tuscan earth to see my name restored among my kin. You'll see them..."
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"...di Fosco, the noble offshoot of a humble plant? Don't wonder, Tuscan, if I weep when I remember Ugolino Dazzo, one who lived among..."
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"...to see or hear, that sinner terrified began again. Lombards or Tuscans, I can fetch you some, but let the melebronchi stand aside so..."
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"...be watchful with your eyes. And one who'd taken in my Tuscan speech cried out behind us, stay your steps, oh you who hurry..."
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"...lets them appear without the heavy mantle? Then they addressed me, Tuscan, you who come to this assembly of sad hypocrites, do not disdain..."
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