Journal - Robert Brace - author

What is the source of the theory about Dante’s ‘Inferno’?

The theory of a mathematically encoded message hidden in Dante’s Inferno is entirely original to FLOREAT LUX. It came first from an analysis of the poem’s structure, prompted by the observation that many of the divisions seem too forced to be the result of poetic license alone, and then considering the findings in the context of mathematics at the time in medieval Florence.

The photograph is of the Dante statue in the Piazza dei Signori, Verona, taken by the author while recently in Italy—this year, Italy is celebrating Dante Alighieri on the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death.

What is the website’s background photograph?

The background in the website’s title block is a photograph of a female harrier, hunting near dusk with storm clouds gathering behind her, much as on page 200 of FLOREAT LUX. Here, as in that scene, she is soaring above a carefully cultivated and topiarized parterre, and the shot was taken on the same terrace from which Sabrina and Bronaryre observe the bird while drinking cocktails and discussing botanicals.