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The location of Dan Brown’s last book Inferno is Florence. Robert Langdon, wakes up in a hospital bed, but not in the Massachusetts General Hospital, near his Cambridge, on the contrary the professor of Symbology at the Harvard University sees from his window the tower of the Signoria Palace in Florence. The Signoria Palace or Palazzo Vecchio is one of the most imposing and important buildings of the city: since Middle ages it was the seat of the Florentine government and in the XVI century it became the residence of the granduke Cosimo I of the Medici, therefore it is historically one of the symbols of the political power of Florence.
The book is an enigma composed of 9 circles as Dante’s Inferno and Dante with his symbology is the leading thread. Besides the book speaks of a map of Dante’s Inferno painted by Botticelli which sends the protagonists in Italy and Europe. Actually Botticelli really painted 100 parchments illustrating the Divine Comedy under the commission of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, in the second half of the XV century.
Please come to Florence and reserve your art expert and licensed guide of Florence, she will show you the places and the itinerary of Dan Brown’s book.
