Langdon’s “body tensed” when he saw a tube marked with a biohazard symbol, as if it might suddenly explode. Anyone who has been to Venice, or even watched a Travel Channel documentary about Venice, will know of them. Sienna Brooks, with her enormous IQ of 208 (Stephen Hawking only scored 200) and her various degrees, Brown then presents her as unfamiliar with Venetian Carnival plague-doctor masks. To call Michelangelo’s sculpture The David is a shorthand that indicates a lack of serious knowledge on the part of the author.Īfter hyping up the brains of heroine Dr. Michelangelo’s David is not the only sculpture of David that is important, and not even the only one in Florence.

Still, here are 10 of the most wincing howlers.īrown refers to Michelangelo’s David as “the David.” This is not a mistake an art historian like the protagonist Robert Langdon would make. There are fewer historical errors, à la The Da Vinci Code. Like The Da Vinci Code, Brown’s new book Inferno begins with a page labeled “FACT” and goes on to tell a tale riddled with oversimplifications. For instance, the Priory of Sion is not a real organization, but the product of an infamous forgery by a Frenchman named Pierre Plantard, who planted fake medieval documents in order to convince people that he should be made king of France. The novel begins with a statement: “FACT, the Priory of Sion-a European secret society founded in 1099-is a real organization.” But there is little in The Da Vinci Code that is correct and well researched. Many books have been published on the numerous mistakes in Dan Brown’s past books, especially The Da Vinci Code.

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