Following the murder of a physicist, Father Silvano Bentivoglio, a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and a scientist, Vittoria Vetra, are on an adventure involving a secret brotherhood, the Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four altars of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.
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Factual errors:
Upon seeing the Illuminati sign, Langdon says: "Ambigram. Same, read backwards and forwards." He then flips the sign upside down to show it still looks the same. A palindrome can be read backwards and forwards, an ambigram can be read from different perspectives (in this case, right side up and upside down).
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The Ring of the Fisherman, which bears the official papal seal, must be destroyed immediately following the Pope's death. The papal apartment is then sealed for nine days of mourning, a period known as "Sede Vacante", the time of the empty throne. See more »
"Gregorian Chant: Requiem Aeternam-Introitus (VI)"
from "Liturgia Defunctorum, Missae Pro Defunctis" Traditional Performed by Schola of the Hofburgkapelle, Vienna Hubert Dopf S.J. Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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