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Analysis Of La Mappa Dell Inferno By Sandro Botticelli

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Professor Robert Langdon wakes up after having a nightmare. Robert dreamt that he is along the bank of Arno River. He also saw dead bodies at the veiled woman’s feet and multiplied into hundreds or maybe thousands, some are still alive but dying consumed by fire and buried. He heard the cries of humans that suffer. Langdon wakes up at the hospital shouting with a head wound and lost his memory. Dr. Sienna Brooks is one of the Doctors that is assigned to Langdon. She said Langdon had been shot at the head and caused him to lose his memory. Suddenly, Vayentha an agent of the Provost has been following Robert Langdon. She went to the hospital and shoot Dr. Marconi.
Sienna in shock grabs Langdon’s arm and escape the hospital. They went to Sienna’s apartment to hide. Robert finds a cylinder tube inside his jacket that had a symbol of biohazard on the tube meaning whatever is inside of it is chemically dangerous. They find out that the cylinder tube contained a high tech mini projector. The projector contains an images of ‘’La Mappa dell’ Inferno’’ (The Map of Hell) by Sandro Botticelli. Robert explores the image of The Map of Hell and it includes the words “The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death”. Suddenly, a black van stopped in front of the place where Langdon said he is located and soldiers came out and enter the building. Sienna and Robert believes that it has to do something with the cylinder. They find out that not only those soldiers that came to Sienna’s

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