Places
Places of the Divine Comedy
Explore the real and symbolic places Dante crosses on his journey.
| Luogo | Tipologia | Menzioni | Versi collegati | Descrizione |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romagna | Real | 4 | 4 | A historical region of northern Italy cited by Dante in the Purgatorio as a geographical reference point to identify Fano, and recurring in the notes to Canto XIV for Romagnol characters. |
| Romena | Real | 1 | 1 | Master Adam, a counterfeiter in the service of the Counts of Romena, indicates in the circle of the falsifiers the place where he committed the forgery, as recalled in Canto XXX of the Inferno. |
| Rubaconte | Real | 1 | 1 | Bridge in Florence mentioned in Purgatorio (XII, 102), remembered for the name of the podestà who began its construction in 1237, Rubaconte di Mandella. The bridge stands below the basilica of San Miniato al Monte. |
| San Leo | Real | 1 | 1 | San Leo is recalled by Dante in Purgatorio as an example of a place extremely difficult to reach on foot, contrasted with the steep Purgatorial ascent which requires flight. |
| Santa Fiora | Real | 1 | 1 | Castle and county on the Amiata in the Grosseto area, cited by Sapia in the Purgatorio as the lineage that had sold the port of Talamone to the Sienese. |
| Santerno | Real | 1 | 1 | The Santerno is a river mentioned in Inferno XXVII as the boundary of the territory of Forlì, paired with the Lamone to indicate the dominion of the Ordelaffi. |
| Sant'Andrea | Real | 1 | 1 | Sant'Andrea is the Florentine quarter indicated by Jacopo da Sant'Andrea as his place of origin, cited in Inferno XIII, v. 133, during the episode of the violent against nature in the forest of the suicides. |
| Sardinia | Real | 3 | 3 | An island in the western Mediterranean recalled by Dante in Inferno (XXIX 48) as a land of corrupt customs, likened to the Maremma. |
| Savio | Real | 1 | 1 | The Savio river is mentioned by Guido da Montefeltro in Inferno XXVII, v. 52, as the watercourse that bathes one side of Romagna. |
| Seine | Real | 2 | 2 | The Seine, the river that flows through Paris, mentioned in Par. XIX 118 as the scene of a future sorrow, according to the prophecy of the sacred eagle. |
| Sengs | Real | 1 | 1 | Plain of Sennaàr, the biblical place where, according to tradition, the Tower of Babel stood, recalled in the Commedia as the setting for the pride of Nimrod. |
| Serchio | Real | 1 | 1 | The Serchio is a Tuscan river recalled by Dante in Canto XXI of the Inferno as a term of comparison to describe the unusual way the damned move through the pitch. |
| Sexten | Real | 1 | 1 | Sestos is the Greek city on the Hellespont mentioned by Dante in the twenty-eighth canto of Purgatorio as one of the two extremes of the marine strait where the storm of the allegory rages. |
| Sestri | Real | 1 | 1 | Sestri is the place name indicated in Purgatorio XIX, v. 100 to denote the point where the coast lowers between Sestri and Chiaveri, in the context of the episode of Pope Adrian V. |
| Sicily | Real | 3 | 3 | Sicily is recalled in the Commedia under its ancient names of Cicilia and Trinacria. In the verses it serves as the setting for historical events and is listed among the honored lands of Paradise. |
| Siena | Real | 5 | 5 | Siena is recalled by Dante in the Purgatorio as the place of his birth and residence: in Purg. V 134 he defines it as the shaper of his formation, and in canto XI 111 he points to it as the setting in which a fellow citizen's voice struggles to make itself heard. |
| Signa | Real | 1 | 1 | Signa is recalled in Par. XVI, 56 as the place of origin of an illustrious Florentine, paired with the «villan d'Aguglion» in the survey of the greatest citizens of Florence. |
| Sile | Real | 1 | 1 | A Venetian river mentioned by Dante in the Paradiso (IX, 49) alongside the Cagnan, near Treviso, as the boundary of his native territory. |
| Simifonti | Real | 1 | 1 | Simifonti is the village indicated by Cacciaguida in Paradiso XVI as the place toward which the jurist Fazio dei Morubaldini da Signa would have turned. |
| Simoeis | Real | 1 | 1 | The Simoenta is the river that flows through the plain of Troy, the setting of numerous battles of the Iliad, recalled in Canto VI of the Paradiso. |
| Il Sodoma | Real | 3 | 3 | Biblical city of the Dead Sea, destroyed by God with a rain of fire together with Gomorrah because of the sin against nature of its inhabitants (Genesis 18-9). |
| Sorgue | Real | 1 | 1 | River of Provence that flows into the Rhône, mentioned in Par. VIII 59 as a watercourse received on the left hydrographic bank by the Rhône. |
| Strofades | Real | 1 | 1 | The Strophades are islands in the Ionian Sea associated in the Aeneid with the Trojans' encounter with the Harpies. Dante cites them in his description of the Wood of the Suicides. |
| Tagliamento | Real | 1 | 1 | The Tagliamento is a river that, together with the Adige, delimits the Marca Trevigiana to the east in Paradiso IX, line 44. |