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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