“Following in the footsteps of Dan Brown’s “Inferno” (“Inferno”).
Dan Brown has turned medieval cryptology and anorak conspiracy theories into a set as lucrative as budget S and M. “Inferno,” heavily inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” this time plunges Langdon into a race to find a deadly virus hidden somewhere in Europe by a psychopathic genius determined to slow the world’s population growth.
Florence, its medieval gardens and palaces riddled with secret passages, provide a fitting backdrop for the labyrinth in this cat-and-mouse puzzle, where Botticelli’s “Map of Hell,” Dante’s “Death Mask” and “the final resting place of the Doge of Venice” contain darkly encrypted clues.
Besides harnessing the imaginative power of Dante’s underworld, Brown sees the Black Plague as an ominous historical analogue to twenty-first-century anxieties about overpopulation and pandemics.
Characters who tend to shift include the provost of a shadowy corporation dedicated to helping those who want to “disappear” and the director of the World Health Organisation.
Those who have already read Dan Brown’s Inferno and seen the recent film based on it will be interested in walking through the places described in the book, discovering the mysterious characters of Dante, Botticelli, and Giorgio Vasari.
You will visit such places that were described in the book:
Florence Abbey
Cathedral of Santa Maria dei Fiore
Piazza del Duomo
Florence Duomo
Old Bridge
Dante’s House
Palazzo Vecchio
Battle of Marciano by Vasari
Battle of Marciano by Vasari
Boboli Gardens
Mask of Dante Alighieri in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
The Gate of Heaven in the Baptistery of Florence
And other places from Dan Brown’s book.
