Inferno DecodedSimon and Schuster, 6 sie 2013 - 272 An all-inclusive guide to key concepts and details about Dan Brown’s novel Inferno—featuring black-and-white illustrations. What is the real truth behind the mysteries of Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster thriller? In this illuminating unofficial companion to Dan Brown’s Inferno, popular historian Michael Haag, author of the bestselling Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code, unpacks Dante’s allegorical poetic masterpiece of the same name, delivering fascinating, crucial background for the characters, settings, and riddles in Brown’s controversial and compelling world. How do the clues unveiled in symbology professor Robert Langdon’s daring quest from Florence to Venice and Istanbul overlap with history? What codes and symbols did Dante employ in the Divine Comedy and which secret religious, philosophical, and scientific themes are hidden within his work? What lies behind Botticelli’s “La Mappa dell’Inferno”? And what are the cult scientists known as transhumanists really up to? Inferno Decoded is a book that ranges as widely as Dan Brown’s novel, from the terrors of the Black Death to the scientific debates around population growth and prolonging of life-spans, and from the economic, political, and religious tumult in Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance to real-life locations in Florence, Venice, and Istanbul today. It is a must-read for anyone who has read Inferno and wondered just how its enigmatic questions are real or relevant. |
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Inferno Decoded | 7 |
Dan Browns Inferno | 9 |
Dante anD hIs WorlD | 25 |
Dante Alighieri | 27 |
Beatrice | 41 |
The Divine Comedy | 57 |
Florence and the Black Death | 93 |
the Rediscovery of a Better World | 107 |
Apocalypse Now? | 164 |
Transhumanists the Eternal Optimists | 176 |
Infernal locatIons | 197 |
Florence | 201 |
Venice and Istanbul | 211 |
Dan BroWn anD hIs WorlD | 219 |
Langdon Brown | 221 |
An Infernal Glossary | 241 |
Botticelli and Infernal Art | 129 |
a WorlD In Danger? | 151 |
The Mathematics of Malthus | 153 |
Further Reading and Websites | 259 |
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