Places
Places of the Divine Comedy
Explore the real and symbolic places Dante crosses on his journey.
| Luogo | Tipologia | Menzioni | Versi collegati | Descrizione |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bugia | Real | 1 | 1 | Bugia (Bougie), a city in Algeria, is mentioned in Canto IX of the Paradiso in relation to the meridian that links it to Marseille, the birthplace of the troubadour Folchetto. |
| Bullicame | Real | 1 | 1 | A thermal spring near Viterbo recalled by Dante as a little stream; its hot waters branched into channels used also for baths and steam rooms, which were forbidden to prostitutes. |
| Cacume | Real | 1 | 1 | Cacume is a mountain cited by Dante in Canto IV of the Purgatorio as a place difficult to climb, compared to Bismantova and San Leo. |
| Cagnan | Real | 1 | 1 | The Cagnan is the river that joins the Sile near Treviso, according to the verse in Paradiso IX 49 and the note on that same canto. |
| Campaldino | Real | 1 | 1 | Plain in the upper Valdarno where, on 11 June 1289, the famous battle between Florentine Guelphs and Aretine Ghibellines took place; in the Purgatorio it is remembered as the place of death of Buonconte da Montefeltro. |
| camp | Real | 1 | 1 | Campi is a Tuscan locality mentioned by Cacciaguida in the list of lands from which his ancient fellow citizens descended, together with Certaldo and Fegghine. |
| Campo of Siena | Real | 1 | 1 | Piazza di Siena, the site of the Palazzo del Comune, still called today piazza del Campo and referred to by the Sienese simply as «il Campo». |
| Campo Piceno | Real | 1 | 1 | Campo Piceno is the Pistoian territory mentioned by Dante in Canto XXIV of the Inferno as the site of a future battle. |
| Caorsa | Real | 1 | 1 | Caorsa is the name used by Dante to indicate Cahors, a city in Guyenne, recalled as a symbol of usury, just as Sodom is the symbol of the sin against nature. |
| Capraia | Real | 1 | 1 | Island in the Ligurian Sea mentioned by Dante in his invective against Pisa in Inferno XXXIII, where its movement, together with that of Gorgona, evokes a biblical divine punishment against the city. |
| Caprona | Real | 1 | 1 | Caprona is the Pisan castle cited in Inferno XXI, 95 in the military simile with which Dante compares the damned emerging from the pitch to soldiers capitulating beneath a fortress. |
| Carentana | Real | 1 | 1 | Carentana is the vernacular form Dante uses to indicate Carinthia, an Alpine duchy that extended to include the Val Sugana, where the Brenta rises. |
| Charybdis | Real | 1 | 1 | Charybdis is the marine whirlpool against which, according to Dante's simile, the wave breaks with continuous violence, an image of the clash of the waters of the Styx. |
| Casale FBC | Real | 1 | 1 | Casale is the hometown of Ubertino da Casale, a Franciscan leader of the Spirituals, cited by Dante in Paradiso XII in contrast to Matteo d'Acquasparta. |
| Casentino | Real | 1 | 1 | Region of Tuscany in the upper Valdarno, between Florence and Arezzo; cited by Dante in the verses on the battle of Campaldino as the southern boundary of the territory then encompassed by this name. |
| Cassino | Real | 1 | 1 | Cassino is the village situated on the slope of the mountain where Benedict founded his abbey, as recalled by Dante in Paradiso XXII. |
| Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole | Real | 1 | 1 | Castle in the valley of the Montone, owned by a branch of the Ordelaffi counts of Forlì, recalled by Dante together with Conio as an example of poorly governed lordship. |
| Catalonia | Real | 1 | 1 | Catalonia: a territory mentioned in Par. VIII 77 as proverbial for the avarice of its inhabitants, called into question by Charles Martel in relation to Angevin misgovernment. |
| Catona | Real | 1 | 1 | Locality mentioned by Dante in Paradiso VIII among the castles that adorn the horn of Ausonia, corresponding today to a northern district of Reggio Calabria on the Strait of Messina. |
| Cecina | Real | 1 | 1 | The river Cecina is mentioned by Dante as one of the two boundaries of the Maremma, alongside Corneto, in the description of the Wood of the Suicides. |
| Certaldo | Real | 1 | 1 | A village in the Valdelsa mentioned by Cacciaguida in Paradiso XVI among the centers from which people came who then settled in ancient Florence. |
| Cervia | Real | 1 | 1 | City of Romagna mentioned by Guido da Montefeltro in Inferno (XXVII, 42), whose marsh is covered by the flight of cranes in spring. |
| Chiavari | Real | 1 | 1 | Chiaveri (today Chiavari) is a Ligurian town recalled by Dante as a geographical reference point in the Purgatorio, indicating the valley down which a river descends. |
| Chiusi | Real | 1 | 1 | Chiusi is mentioned by Cacciaguida in the list of cities located along the Tyrrhenian coast behind Fano and behind the territory where the Tiber descends. |