



Hannibal Advent » Day 38: The Number of the Beast Is 666
You are privy to a great becoming and you recognize nothing.
Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you?
- Hannibal - 3.12 - 3.13
- Botticelli’s “Chart of Hell”
We’ve had a lot of symbolism about Dante’s Inferno this season. This jump would have two different views. It’s a real jump but it’s also a metaphorical jump. Will’s descent to Hell.
Botticelli’s “Chart of Hell” furnishes a panoptic display of the descent made by Dante and Virgil through the “abysmal valley of pain”.
The painting is similar to the cliff where Hannibal and Will jumped.
From Dante’s Inferno: “Conscious that he is ruining himself and that he is falling into a “low place” where the sun is silent, Dante is at last rescued by Virgil, and the two of them begin their journey to the underworld.
Having survived the depths of Hell, Dante and Virgil ascend out of the undergloom to the Mountain of Purgatory on the far side of the world.”