Places
Places of the Divine Comedy
Explore the real and symbolic places Dante crosses on his journey.
| Luogo | Tipologia | Menzioni | Versi collegati | Descrizione |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fontebranda | Real | 1 | 1 | A fountain celebrated by Dante for the freshness of its waters, mentioned by Maestro Adamo (Inf. XXX 78), who prizes it even above his sight. |
| Forlì | Real | 2 | 2 | Forlì is a city of Romagna mentioned by Dante in Inferno XVI as the place where the Montone torrent loses the name Acquacheta, and in Purgatorio XXIV in an image linked to thirst. |
| Gaeta | Real | 2 | 2 | Gaeta is an Italian city cited by Dante as a port of passage after approximately one year spent with Circe and as one of the castles of the Neapolitan realm that belonged to Charles Martel of Anjou. |
| Galicia | Real | 1 | 1 | Region of Spain called Galicia, home to the tomb of the apostle James, the principal destination of medieval pilgrimage after the Holy Land. Dante mentions it as a place visited by pilgrims. |
| Gallura | Real | 2 | 2 | Gallura is the judicature of north-eastern Sardinia cited by Dante in the Inferno as the place of origin of the barrator Friar Gomita. |
| Galluzzo | Real | 1 | 1 | Galluzzo is a village mentioned by Cacciaguida in Paradiso XVI as one of the localities whose inhabitants, in Dante's present, poured into Florence, mingling with the citizens of ancient origin. |
| Garda | Real | 1 | 1 | Garda is the village situated on the eastern shore of the lake, cited by Dante as a geographical reference point in Canto XX of the Inferno, alongside Val Camonica and the Pennine Alps. |
| Gaville | Real | 1 | 1 | Gaville is the town that mourns the death of one of its own inhabitants, according to the periphrasis with which the episode of the transformations between men and serpents comes to a close. |
| Mount Gilboa | Real | 1 | 1 | Mount Gilboa is the biblical mountain range where Saul died, cited in Purg. XII 41 as an arid place because of David's curse. |
| Jerusalem | Real | 4 | 4 | Jerusalem is cited in the Commedia as the geographical center of the inhabited hemisphere and as a place of considerable historical, theological, and prophetic significance. |
| Jordan River | Real | 1 | 1 | The Jordan is the river of the Promised Land that in the Commedia appears as a biblical symbol connected with the entry of the Jews into the promised land. |
| Isla Gorgona | Real | 1 | 1 | Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea cited by Dante in his invective against Pisa: he wishes that Capraia and Gorgona might move to block the city. |
| Governolo | Real | 1 | 1 | Governolo is the point where the Mincio river leaves Lake Garda and flows into the Po, as recalled in Inferno XX. |
| Gascony | Real | 1 | 1 | Historic region mentioned by Dante in the procession of Purgatory as territory wrested by deceit by the king of France from the king of England, his feudal vassal. |
| Wissant | Real | 1 | 1 | Guizzante is the Flemish locality which, together with Bruggia (Bruges), indicates the extent of the entire region of Flanders, used as a geographical term of comparison. |
| Ilerda | Real | 1 | 1 | Ilerda is the city recalled by Dante in the Purgatorio as the place where Caesar conducted a military campaign to subjugate it. The name appears in an example of solicitude. |
| Jehoshaphat | Real | 1 | 1 | Jehoshaphat is the valley near Jerusalem where, according to Scripture, the Last Judgment will take place; in Inferno X it designates metaphorically the tombs of the damned. |
| Ismenus | Real | 1 | 1 | The river Ismenus is mentioned by Dante in Purgatorio XVIII 91 alongside the river Asopus, according to his recollection of Statius's Thebaid. |
| Cyprus | Real | 1 | 1 | Island of the eastern Mediterranean cited by Dante as the eastern extremity of the sea, paired with Majorca to the west in the geographical periphrasis «Tra l'isola di Cipri e di Maiolica». |
| Spain | Real | 1 | 1 | Ispagna is mentioned in Purgatorio (XVIII, 102) as a destination reached by the steed of Charlemagne after striking Marseille, in a sequence of examples of solicitude. |
| Lamone | Real | 1 | 1 | The Lamone is a river of northern Italy, mentioned by Dante alongside the Santerno in Canto XXVII of the Inferno. |
| Lateran | Real | 2 | 2 | The Lateran is an area of Rome mentioned by Dante in Inferno XXVII 86 and Paradiso XXXI 35, where the verses evoke the Lateran palace as the historic seat of the papacy. |
| Lerici | Real | 1 | 1 | Lerici is recalled by Dante as the eastern extreme of the Ligurian coastal stretch between La Spezia and Nizza, contrasted with Turbia to measure the harshness of that cliff. |
| Libya | Real | 1 | 1 | Sandy desert of Libya, evoked by Dante as the measure of the most terrible species of serpents, surpassed by the seventh bolgia. |