by Michael Haag
Faukman, Jonas 248
Fedeli d’Amore, the 31, 54, 83
Fede Santa 86
Feeding Frenzy 262
Ferris, Jonathan (biography) 248
Ficino, Marsilio 134, 138
Fiesole 93, 111
First Crusade, the 122
Fischer, Günther 167
flatterers, in Hell 77
Flaxman, John 59
Florence, map of 203
FM-2030182, 247
Fourth Crusade, the 122
Francesco I 138
Frankenstein 194
fraud, in Hell 77
Freitas, Robert A 184
Fukuyama, Francis 190
G
Gates of Paradise, the 111, 112, 209
Gelsinger, Jesse 186
Gemistus Plethon 118, 127, 139, 181
genetic engineering 185
germ-line manipulation 185
Ghibellines 33, 38, 99
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 111
Gibson, William 195
Giotto 97, 126
Glossary, Infernal 241
gluttony 71
Godwin, William 162, 194
Grand Canal, Venice 212
Great Famine 159
Guelfs 33, 99
Guénon, René 261
Guild of Cloth Merchants, the 111
Guild of Wool Merchants, the 115
Gulensoy, Goksel 248
Gypsy, the 249
H
Haber-Bosch process 171
Hagia Sophia 214, 215, 217
Hall of the Five Hundred 136, 206
harpies, symbolism of 76
Harris Tweed 249
Heaney, Seamus 59
Hell
dimensions of 91
Eighth Circle 77
Fifth Circle 72
First Circle 68
Fourth Circle 72
Ninth Circle 79
Second Circle 69
Seventh Circle 75
Sixth Circle 73
Third Circle 71
heresy 73
Hermes Trismegistos 134
Hirst, Damien 249
Holiday, Henry 43
homosexuality 30, 76
Horace 30
Hotel Brunelleschi 210
humanism 23, 107
Humanity+ 183, 263
Huxley, Aldous 181, 194
Huxley, Julian 181
hypocrites, in Hell 78
I
IIASA 167
Illuminati, the 237
immortality 189
Islam 19
J
Jason 77
Judas Iscariot 81
Judecca 81
justice 67
K
Kaffa 101
Kass, Leon 191
Kaufman, Jason 248
Kennedy, John F 21, 214, 249
Keymel, Mariele 250
Kier, Deb 250
Klimt, Gustav 250
Knights Templar, the 38, 83, 84
Knowlton, Laurence (biography) 250
Koran, the 19
Kurzweil, Ray 179, 188, 250, 263
L
Landino, Cristoforo 134
Langdon, Robert 221, 251
Latini, Brunetto 30, 76, 189
laurel, symbolism of 29
life expectancy 189
Limbo 68
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 251
Lost Symbol, The 225, 235, 239
Lovecraft, H P 195
lust, in Hell 69
M
Machiavelli, Niccoló 251
Malebolge 77
Malthus, Thomas Robert 155, 156, 252
Manila 19, 20
Map of Hell 131, 147
Marconi, Enrico 252
Marsyas 87
Marx, Karl 159
McKennitt, Loreena 252
McMahon, Paul 164, 262
Medici, Cosimo de 128, 134, 135
Medici, Francesco de 204
Medici, Lorenzo de 128, 138
Mendacium, The 252
Metochites, Theodore 125
Michelangelo 142, 207
Minotaur 75
Minsky, Marvin 190
Mirandola, Pico della 181
Mirsat 253
Mohammed 79
N
nanomedicine 188
nanotechnology 186
Neoplatonism 134
Nessus 75
Neveu, Sophie 221
Newlon, Blythe 233, 234, 239
Nicholas III 78
Nigeria 20
nine 49
nitrogen fertiliser 171
O
Oppenheimer, Robert 253
opportunists, in Hell 67
Orsanmichele 98
Ovid 30, 87
P
Padua 38
Palazzo Pitti 202
Palazzo Portinari Salviati 208
Palazzo Vecchio 97, 204, 206
Pantheon, Rome 113
peacock, symbolism of 29
Peak Water 172
Pearl, Matthew 251
perspective 114
Peterloo Massacre, the 158
Petrarch, Francesco 132
Pfeiffer, Dale Allen 171
Philip IV 38, 86
Philippines, the 20
Phillips Exeter Academy 228, 231
Phlegethon 75
Piazza della Signoria 207
Pierfrancesco, Lorenzo di 138, 141
Pimponi, Maurizio 253
Plato 90, 134
Platonic Academy 134
Plume Paris 254
Polenta, Guido Novello da 39, 40
Ponte Vecchio 98, 205
Population Apocalypse Equation, the 253
population 163
Porta Romana 201
Portinari, Beatrice see Beatrice
Portinari, Folco 43, 52
Primavera 129, 130
Princeton Dante Project 261
Provost, the (biography) 254
Ptolomaea 81
pusillanimous, in Hell 67
Pythagoras 89
R
Ravenna 39
Revelation 18
Rimini, Francesca da 39, 71
River of Blood 75
Rodin, Auguste 39, 70, 255
Russo, Ernesto 255
S
Salone dei Cinquecento 136
Santa Croce 97
Santa Margherita de Cerchi 46, 208
Santa Maria Novello 120
Santa Reparata 94
Satan 82
Savanarola, Girolamo 139, 146, 207
science fiction 194
screen lady 46
Seracini, Maurizio 137, 255
Seville 232
Shade, The (biography) 255
Shelley, Mary 194
Singularity, the 188
Sinskey, Elizabeth (biography) 20, 255
Società Dante Alighieri 18
sodomites, in Hell 76
Solublon 256
Stapledon, Olaf 194
St Bernard 86
Stevenson, Mark 186, 262
Stock, Gregory 182
Strabo 118
St Saviour in Chora 124, 126
Studiolo, the 138
Sufis 83
supor 33
T
telemeres 189
terza rima 58, 62, 91
Tesoretto 138
thieves, in Hell 78
Tipler, Frank 196
Titian 88
Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo 117
traitors, in Hell 79
Transhumanism 160, 176
troubadours 31, 55, 83
U
Uberti, Farinata degli 74
Ugolino, Count 61, 80
Ulysses 78
V
Vasari Corridor 135, 204
Vasari, Giorgio 112, 129, 131, 136, 256, 257
Vayentha (biography) 256
Venci, Giorgio 257
Vespucci, Amerigo 144
Vespucci
, Simonetta 144
Villani, Giovanni 96
Vio, Ettore 258
violence 75
Virgil 64
Vita Nuova 27, 42, 48, 51
W
Waterhouse, John William 100
Weighing of the Heart ritual 18, 19
well, falling down a 226
Wells, H G 194
WHO 20, 258
Wilson, A N 260
Wood of the Suicides, the 76
wool industry, Florentine 96
wrath, in Hell 72
Y
Yerebatan Saray, Istanbul 216, 217
Z
Zobrist, Bertrand 20, 258