Tamir points to statues of Dante in Florence as evidence that Italian culture honored poets and artists alongside warriors, a multifaceted ideal of manhood.
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how to upgrade your brain's OSMedieval Italian poet. His Inferno and Paradiso come up as images of the afterlife people wait for.
the elixir of authenticityThe Florentine poet comes up as a healthy way to channel unrequited feeling. He met Beatrice only once and never had her, but rather than casting himself as a victim he put his love and pain into La Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy. Tamir contrasts this with the incel movement.
don't pretend you aren't confusedAuthor of the Divine Comedy. Tamir quotes the moment in Paradiso when Dante, facing God, says his wings were not capable of that flight: an image for hitting the limit of what we can know.