![]() As well as harnessing the imaginative power of Dante’s underworld, Brown casts the Black Plague as an ominous historical correlative for 21st century anxieties about overcrowding and pandemics. ![]() Florence, its medieval gardens and palaces riven with secret passages, becomes a suitably labyrinthian backdrop to this cat and mouse brain teaser, with Botticelli’s La Mappa dell’Inferno, Dante’s death masque and the final resting place of a Venetian doge all containing murkily encrypted clues. Inferno, heavily inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, this time plunges Langdon into a race to find a deadly virus concealed somewhere in Europe by a psychotic genius determined to put the brakes on global population expansion. ‘If you want to write Fifty Shades Of Iconography, we can talk.’īrown, of course, has the last laugh here he has turned medieval cryptology and anorak conspiracy theories into a package easily as lucrative as budget S and M. ![]() ‘We don’t have access to private jets for authors of tomes about religious history,’ says the editor. His latest blockbuster, Inferno, boasts a scene in which Brown’s Harvard symbologist hero Robert Langdon begs his editor to book him a private jet. ![]() You can’t accuse Dan Brown of not having a sense of humour. Dan Brown’s latest novel is inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy ![]()
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