Dante Club

The Dante Club begins with the murder of false Chief Justice Judge Healey, who had avoided taking a position to resolution or support the escaped slaves of the South. Found by his chambermaid dear a white flag atop a short wooden staff, Healey had been hit in the head and then left in his tend to be eaten alive by strategically placed maggots and stung by hornets. Holmes, who examines the body for the police, recognizes the correlation between the murder and the retaliatements seen in Dantes Inferno.Then Reverend Talbot, who was compensable by the Harvard Corporation to write against Dante, was found dead in an tubing cemetery, buried up to his waist upside down, his feet burnt. Members of the Dante Club, a group of poets translating The churchman Comedy from Italian into English, notice the parallels between the murders and the punishments detailed in Dantes Inferno. The club, including hydrogen Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. , and James Russell Lowell, se ts out to solve the murders, fearing that the truth will disclose Dantes burgeoning reputation in America, thus making their translation a failure.Then, Phineas Jennison, both(prenominal) a wealthy contributor to the Harvard Corporation and friend to the translators (a schismatic), is sliced open exactly down the middleall killed in original fashion and undeniable resemblance to the punishments of people in Dantes Inferno. Eventually, the murderer is sight to be a former Civil War Soldier Dan teal, a man who worked at Ticknor and Fields. Driven partly mad by the distress of his war experiences, Teal hears Dante Club member George Washington Greene giving sermons on Dante, and becomes convinced that Dante alone understood the need for perfect justice in the world.With protecting Dante as his sole motivation, Teal takes it upon himself to release Hells punishments as indicated by Dante, in order to purify the urban center. Teal finds each of his victims when learning of their familiarity in the stopping of the translations, which become their respective sins. The club eventually tries to bring forth him, with the aid of Bostons first African-American policeman Nicholas Rey, the only other individual who saw the connection, while attempting to punish Harvard Treasurer Dr. Manning and Pliny Mead (the traitors). Mead was a student of the Dante black market who helped betray his eacher by cooperating with Manning. He later fled when the club assay to punish him for his involvement in stopping the translation of the Inferno. They later encounter him as he tries to round up the translators, to punish them for not embracing his work. Dr. Manning salve by Longfellow, Holmes, Rey, Lowell, and Fieldsrealizes the situation as he recovered from his attempted punishment of being buried naked in ice. He sees Teal on the street with a gun to Longfellow, and Manning ends the murderers life, thus returning the city to normal.