Inferno Revealed

Timeline of Dante's Times and Life
Introduction
Chapter 1: Personalizing the Epic or How Making Yourself the Hero of Your Own Poem Changes Everything
Chapter 2: Scandalous Contemporaries: Dante's People
Chapter 3: A Divided World: Political Factionalism, War, and Exile
Chapter 4: Churchmen in Hell
Chapter 5: Hell on Earth: Dante's Treatment of Place
Chapter 6: The Legacy of Dante's Inferno in English Literature
Chapter 7: Popular Adaptations of the Inferno
Chapter 8: Dan Brown's Inferno and The Legacy of Dante
Chapter 9: A Complete List of Allusions to the Divine Comedy in Dan Brown's Inferno

Deborah Parker and Mark Parker

"A lively sprint through Dante's celebrated poem and its stupendous afterlife. The authors roll out their account as a mystery story of their own. It's a terrific tale from start to finish about how Dante's seven-hundred-year-old personal epic still grips twenty-first-century readers, writers, and creative luminaries." --William J. Kennedy, Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell University "Deborah and Mark Parker provide a lively, witty, and intelligent guide to Dante's own masterwork, the "Inferno," and then to 'Dante after Dante, ' as it were. They take readers on an interesting tour of how Dante used as a springboard for creative re-use, culminating in Dan Brown, who has captured the imagination of many readers and, importantly, led them back to Dante's medieval masterpiece." --Christopher S. Celenza, Director, American Academy in Rome, and Charles Homer Haskins Professor, Johns Hopkins University "Deborah and Mark Parker bridge the gap between hard core Dante scholars and the pop cultural world. From Dante to Dan Brown is a cultural leap as well as a leap through time and across the planet. Deborah and Mark Parker have made the leap less daunting and treacherous." --Sandow Birk, artist, film maker, and author of the illustrated Dante's "Inferno" "In a prose that is arresting because it is so lucid and direct, Deborah and Mark Parker have written a book that explains the magic of Dante's famous "Inferno." Their discussions of "Beetlejuice," "Se7en," and Sandow Birk's illustrated "Inferno" are especially fine, as is their assessment of Dan Brown's recent best-seller, which climaxes their book. What they write of Dante might well be adapted and applied to their own book: 'Part of Dante's genius lies in his extraordinary ability to reduce a complex situation to gestures that are still understandable today.'"--Jerome McGann, The John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia "This rich, lively account of Dante's poem,