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Dante's inferno
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Also, Dante was huge chud, even for his time. He copes and seethes about the fact that merchants
started having more power and influence, than minor noble families like his, in Florence, the city he was kicked out of due to his political faction losing 
. He also says that the Catholic Church is corrupt and, at one point that the Arno river should be dammed in such a way as to flood the city of Pisa, whose citizens according to him are the "shame of the peoples" 
. Although he does respect his rhetoric teacher who went to heck for sodomy. 
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Moral of the story- All logicbros will go to heck
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He was literally a paid shill
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Wait really, by who?
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!nonchuds We Wuz Venetians n' Shit
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At one point he explicitly claimed to be descended from the ancient Romans while most the commoners of Florence were from some barbaric Italic tribe or something like that according to him.
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Wait really?
Though Romans were originally part of an Italic tribe so that is not to big of a difference
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Yes, in the lines from 61 to 78 of the Canto XV of the Inferno. Here is an English translation that butchered the original Italian rhymes and tone but keep most of the meaning intact. The bad people are the the citizens of Florence (which according to Dante had fallen
in the XIV century) who are prophesied to banish Dante despite him not doing anything wrong and are also descended from the Etruscans of Fesole. The town of Fesole was razed to the ground in Roman times when its people supported Catiline's conspiracy and the survivors reportedly moved into Florentia, now Florence.
I would have given thee comfort in the work.
But that ungrateful and malignant people,
Which of old time from Fesole descended,
And smacks still of the mountain and the granite,
Will make itself, for thy good deeds, thy foe;
And it is right; for among crabbed sorbs
It ill befits the sweet fig to bear fruit.
Old rumor in the world proclaims them blind;
A people avaricious, envious, proud;
Take heed that of their customs thou do cleanse thee.
Thy fortune so much honor doth reserve thee,
One party and the other shall be hungry
For thee; but far from goat shall be the grass.
Their litter let the beasts of Fesole
Make of themselves, nor let them touch the plant,
If any still upon their dunghill rise,
In which may yet revive the consecrated
Seed of those Romans, who remained there when
The nest of such great malice it became."
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Some people are able to display their intelligence by going on at length on a subject and never actually saying anything. This ability is most common in trades such as politics, public relations, and law. You have impressed me by being able to best them all, while still coming off as an absolute idiot.
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keep yourself safe honestly
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Oh and I forgot, he claims that his ancestors are from Rome in lines 39-42 of the Canto XVI of the Paradiso by saying:
My ancestors and I our birthplace had
Where first is found the last ward of the city
By him who runneth in your annual game.
referring to Rome for reasons I don't remember exactly and don't feel like looking up now.
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