ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The book Inferno by Dan Browne bases its plot on the painting Map of Hell, who is the author?
A
Miguel Angel
B
Leonardo
C
Botticelli
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The famous painter Sandro Botticelli, whose real name was Alessandro Filipepi, was born in Florence in 1445 and died there in 1510.

Detailed explanation-2: -Botticelli’s paintings still fascinate people more than 500 years after his death. But the artist also had a dark side. He painted and drew hell as described by the poet Dante.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, became one of the leading lyric poets in Italy as a young man. He was exiled for political reasons, and in the last fifteen years of his life composed The Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the most-read part today.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the novel Inferno by Dan Brown, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is recruited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to help locate a deadly pathogen. The virus is believed to have been created by Bertrand Zobrist, a Transhumanist who thought that the world was in danger of collapse because of overpopulation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Map of Hell is in the Vatican collection.

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