![]() Brown chose -5/14/13-for his book launch because the numerals in reverse (31415) match the first digits of pi, the irrational number essential to the symbolic properties of circles, including the fact that they can’t be squared (except by God), as Dante reminds us in the finale to his poem. Shamefully easy prey for the book’s marketing campaign, I auditioned for a spot among Dante’s over-spenders in Circle 4 by paying an extra charge to have UPS deliver my copy right on the much-ballyhooed release date. A Dante scholar by trade, and an unrepentant fan of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons to boot, I was genetically susceptible to the contagion. Anche i suoi libri successivi, 'Angeli e Demoni' (2006), 'Il simbolo perduto' (2009) e 'Inferno' (2013), tutti pubblicati in Italia da Mondadori, sono bestseller mondiali.Nel 2020 esce un libro dedicato ai più piccoli La sinfonia degli animali (Rizzoli) in cui lo scrittore mescola la narrativa alla musica.Brown è apparso alla CNN, The Today. Soon after its publication Dan Brown’s Inferno predictably spawned an ecosystem-tweets, blog-posts, essays, books-telling us how he used and abused Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in this thriller named for the poem’s first and most famous part. ![]() Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and Sienna Brooks (Felicity Jones) in Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s Inferno ![]()
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