Sandro Botticelli's 'Map of Hell,' Vatican City
That discovery leads Langdon on a code-cracking tour of some of Florence's historical hot spots.īelow, a visual guide to Dan Brown's "Inferno" and some the paintings and locations that actually made it into the novel. The first clue is embedded in an altered version of Botticelli's depiction of Dante's nine circles of hell.
"Inferno" follows symbologist Robert Langdon, star of "The Da Vinci Code," "The Lost Symbol" and "Angels & Demons," as he races around Florence with an attractive, brilliant sidekick named Sienna, trying to unravel a doomsday plot that appears to be connected to Dante's vision of hell. Little was known about his new novel-apart from the broad subject matter and setting, and a breathless prologue that was released as a teaser-until Doubleday published it this week, with a first print run of four million copies. Brown would emphasize Dante's interest in the sacred feminine, but that theme never emerges in the book). Guides to his new novel, such as Greg Taylor's "Inside Dan Brown's Inferno," are already for sale on Amazon. A whole literary subgenre of knockoffs and explainers has sprung up around his books, which have sold more than 200 million copies in 52 languages.
0 kommentar(er)
