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Hell’s Mapmakers: Charting Dante’s Inferno, Circle By Circle

WORDS Posted: July 18, 2017 9:03 am

“In addition to being among the greatest Italian literary works, Divine Comedy also heralded a craze for ‘infernal cartography,’ or mapping the Hell that Dante had created. … There are several theories for why it was so important then to delineate Dante’s Hell, including the general popularity of cartography at the time and the Renaissance obsession with proportions and measurements. However, given the inherent limitations of mapping a fictional world, there was some debate between scholars over the specifics.”

WORDS Published: 07.13.17

Read the story in Atlas Obscura Published: 07.13.17

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