Robert is taken to Elizabeth Sinskey, the director-general of the WHO, and receives an extensive explanation of what is happening: Zobrist, who committed suicide the week before, was a mad scientist and Dante fanatic who engineered a new strain of the Black Death to cleanse the world of overpopulation.
Robert is captured by the black soldiers, while Sienna escapes. They follow the riddle to Venice, where Jonathan suddenly falls unconscious. A man named Jonathan Ferris, claiming to be from the World Health Organization (WHO), comes and helps them escape the soldiers. Robert connects the phrase “Paradise 25” to the Florence Baptistry, where he and Sienna find the Dante mask along with a riddle from its current owner, a billionaire geneticist named Bertrand Zobrist. They cross the attic over the Apotheosis of Cosimo I, where Sienna pushes Vayentha to her death. Robert and Sienna escape the guards, but the soldiers arrive. At this moment, Ignazio’s secretary calls Robert and tells him that he died of a heart attack and that his last words were “Paradise 25.” The museum guards turn on Robert and Sienna. They look at security footage and see Robert himself and Ignazio stealing the mask. Marta takes Robert and Sienna to the mask and find that it’s gone. Robert realizes that he is retracing his steps from the previous night. Marta Alvarez, the director of the museum that houses the Battle of Marciano, recognizes Robert after he and Ignazio Busoni, the director of the Duomo, had met with her the previous night and asked to see Dante’s death mask, which sits in a room behind the Battle of Marciano.
Robert and Sienna reach the Old City using the Vasari Corridor. Moving them back yields “ CERCA TROVA“, a reference to The Battle of Marciano by Vasari, located in Palazzo Vecchio. They run into the Boboli Gardens, where a solution to the Map of Hell occurs to Robert: ten letters have been added to the ten layers of the Malebolge, and the layers have been rearranged. However, they find that Florentine police officers and Carabinieri officers have sealed the bridges and are searching for them. Robert and Sienna head toward the Old City, believing that the cylinder must have something to do with Dante. He opens the cylinder and finds a meal bone cylinder fitted with a hi-tech projector that emits a modified version of Botticelli’s Map of Hell. However, when he looks from the apartment window and sees an armed Vayentha pulling up to the location he has given them, Robert realizes that the U.S. Robert gives them a location near the apartment out of respect for Sienna’s privacy. He is told that they are searching for him and that they want his location. Robert finds a biohazard cylinder in his jacket and decides to call the U.S.
Sienna grabs Robert, and they flee to her apartment. Suddenly, a female contract killer named Vayentha breaks into the hospital, shoots another doctor, and approaches Robert’s room.
Sienna Brooks, one of the doctors tending to him, tells him that he suffered a concussion from being grazed by a bullet and that he stumbled into the emergency ward. However, he quickly realizes that he is now in Florence, Italy. His last memory is of him walking on the Harvard campus. Professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital with a head wound and no memory of the last few days.
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