![]() ![]() One of my goals is to have done the research and made the connections between Brown’s fiction and the facts. Dan Brown actually mentions the two sites above along with the Princeton Dante Project in his acknowledgements. In the digital age one might begin with either The Digital Dante Project, or the World of Dante, a multimedia project for interested readers and scholars alike. What is the casual reader to do, especially one who has access to Dante only in translation, not in the original Italian?ĭante’s image also appears in one the Facebook page, and it will adorn the dustcover of the US version of the original publication. ![]() Scholars have spent lifetimes on this writer and the old card catalog of the Italian National Library contains two draws of references to works by and about him. With this new novel, I am excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm… a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a few secret passageways.” “Although I studied Dante’s Inferno in high school, it wasn’t until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante’s work on the modern world. Dan Brown has already referenced Dante and his Inferno. ![]()
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