Paradise 25
Canto 25 of Dante’s Paradise plays a key role in Dan Brown’s Inferno, as it is very important to solve one of the main mysteries.
Robert Langdon reads its stanzas in the modern rendition by American Professor Allen Mandelbaum.
Dante Alighieri’s Inferno
Inferno (Hell) is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy.
It is followed by Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise) and was written in the fourteenth century.
Malebolge
In Dan Brown’s Inferno, Robert Langdon is terrified when he recognizes Malebolge in his recurring visions, and we know why.
The Map of Hell
The Map of Hell (in Italian La Mappa dell’Inferno) by Botticelli – regularly called The Abyss of Hell or La Voragine dell’Inferno – is one of the parchments that the famous Italian painter designed to illustrate an edition of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
Portraits of Dante in Florence
Dante Alighieri is the most illustrious and famous citizen of Florence.
Dante presence is everywhere in the city: in the place where his house once stood, in the little church where he met Beatrice, in the Baptistery where he was baptized and in many other places.
Casa di Dante – Dante Alighieri and his House
In the birthplace of Dante Alighieri, the father of the Italian language, today there is a building rebuilt in 1911 that houses the Casa di Dante, the Dante House Museum.