![]() ![]() This study guide quotes and obscures the author’s use of a derogatory reference to a Romani person. This study guide refers to the 2013 Doubleday hardcover edition.Ĭontent Warning: Inferno depicts violence throughout and includes a scene of sexual assault. Textual and thematic references to Inferno abound in Brown’s novel. Written in the 14th-century Tuscan dialect, the Divine Comedy is credited with establishing the modern Italian language, and Dante Alighieri remains one of the most important writers in the history of Italian literature. ![]() The book’s title is a reference to Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s three-part epic poem Divina Commedia, or Divine Comedy in English, which was completed in the year 1320 and traced Dante’s fictional pilgrimage through the three realms of the afterlife: Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Heaven). ![]()
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