Places
Places of the Divine Comedy
Explore the real and symbolic places Dante crosses on his journey.
| Luogo | Tipologia | Menzioni | Versi collegati | Descrizione |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | Structural | 1 | 9 | The Heaven of Mars is the fifth heaven of Dante's Paradise, reached after the passage from the Heaven of the Sun in Canto XIV, where Dante hears a celestial hymn and sees brilliant lights. |
| Kythira | Real | 1 | 1 | Cythera, recalled as a mountain in Purg. XXVII 95, is the island linked to the cult of Venus, from which the star of the planet takes its poetic name Cytheria. |
| hill | Real | 1 | 1 | The hill is the elevation that Dante, at the beginning of his journey, sees at the top of the slope beyond the wood; for the citizens of Purgatorio XIII, it is instead a Tuscan locality mentioned by Sapia. |
| Conio | Real | 1 | 1 | Conio is mentioned by Dante in Purgatorio (XIV, 116), in a passage where the poet, speaking of poorly governed lands, states that Castrocaro acts badly and Conio even worse. |
| Tarquinia | Real | 2 | 2 | Corneto is the southern boundary of the Maremma indicated by Dante in Inf. XIII 9, south of the river Cecina, in the coastal strip of Lazio. |
| Crete | Real | 1 | 1 | Greek island mentioned by Dante in Canto XIV of the Inferno, where the Greek poet indicates it as the land in which he lived and died. |
| Danube | Real | 1 | 1 | The Danube is the great river of central-eastern Europe which in Paradiso VIII designates the kingdom of Hungary belonging to Charles Martel on his mother's side. |
| Delos | Real | 1 | 1 | Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades, which mythological tradition indicates as the refuge where Latona gave birth to Apollo and Diana. |
| Douai | Real | 1 | 1 | Douai, known in historical Italian as Doagio, is one of the four principal cities of Flanders cited by Dante to indicate the entire country, recalled for the betrayal of Philip IV the Fair against the Count of Flanders. |
| Ebro | Real | 1 | 1 | Spanish river mentioned by Dante in Paradiso as the western boundary of the land he inhabited, paired with the Magra. |
| Aegina | Real | 1 | 1 | Aegina is mentioned in Inferno XXIX in the context of the simile of the plague that struck the island, with its people entirely infirm. |
| Egypt | Real | 1 | 1 | In the Commedia Egypt is indicated by the place-name or by the river Nile, evoked as the refuge of Pompey after Pharsalus and as the location of Babylon or the region ruled by Semiramis. |
| Mount Helicon | Real | 1 | 1 | Helicon is the mountain sacred to the Muses, from which the poet asks for inspiration to describe the spectacle of the triumphal chariot. |
| Dardanelles | Real | 1 | 1 | The strait of the Hellespont is recalled by Dante as an example of a stretch of sea at once easy and difficult to cross, set against the impossibility for the poet of reaching Matelda. |
| Ema | Real | 1 | 1 | Ema is the place mentioned by Cacciaguida in Par. XVI, 143, where he asks God that Dante be granted to Ema. |
| Ethiopia | Real | 1 | 1 | Ethiopia is mentioned by Dante in the seventh bolgia of the Inferno (XXIV 89) as a comparative measure for the quantity of serpents that appear there, and in XXXIV 44 in relation to the Nile. |
| Euphrates and Tigris | Real | 1 | 1 | The two Mesopotamian rivers Euphrates and Tigris, recalled by Dante in the Earthly Paradise as a term of comparison for the twin streams he sees before him. |
| Monte Falterona | Real | 1 | 1 | Mountain of the Tuscan-Romagnol Apennines remembered by Dante in Purgatorio XIV as the source of the Arno, cited in the verse «un fiumicel che nasce in Falterona». |
| Famagusta | Real | 1 | 1 | Famagusta, the principal city of the island of Cyprus, is recalled by Dante in Paradiso XIX alongside Nicosia as a voice of lament against the king of Cyprus. |
| Farsala | Real | 1 | 1 | Pharsalus, a city of south-eastern Thessaly, is the site of the decisive battle (9 August 48 BC) between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, cited by Dante in the Paradiso. |
| Feltre | Real | 1 | 1 | In Paradiso IX, Cunizza da Romano foretells that Feltre will weep for the fault of its shepherd, compared to no other prisoner for wickedness. |
| Fiesole | Real | 3 | 3 | Fiesole is recalled by Dante as the center from which the ancient founders of Florence descended, according to the legend of the city's Roman origins. |
| Florence | Real | 8 | 8 | Florence is Dante's native city, evoked several times in the Commedia with political and moral judgments and also called Fiorenza in the verses. |
| Focara | Real | 1 | 1 | Focara is a stretch of coast between Cattolica and Pesaro, cited by Dante in the Inferno (XXVIII, 89) as a place struck by an extremely strong wind, proverbial for its dangerousness to navigation. |