Populated by entities known as ‘shades’-bodiless Portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm Inferno is the underworld as described in DanteĪlighieri’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, which Its name has been changedįor considerations of security and privacy. ‘The Consortium’ is a private organization with This can and should be a purely intellectual challenge, and I have in the past used the novels as a starting point for students and introduction to research and the means to draw lines between the factual and fictional.ĭan Brown tweeted the quote with the question on May 3, 2016 : “Who uttered this paraphrasing of Dante’s words… and in what context?”Īll artwork, literature, science, and historical references The difficulty is in separating fact from the fictional novel that follows. Inferno is no different, although the statement and assertions are modest. But the quote is not from Dante’s Inferno, but rather an analysis of Canto 3: 34-42.īrown begins the Robert Langdon series with a claim to facts. Kennedy who called them the “hottest” places. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.The epigraph to the novel begins with a misquote from John F.
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