Rebecca Strauss – an art critic for the New York Times.ĭr. Maria – a former nun chastely loved by the pope, and Carlo Ventresca’s mother.īob Brownell – a physicist friend of Langdon’s in Cambridge Gunther Glick – former tabloid reporter, now BBC reporter. Lieutenant Chartrand – the youngest member of the Swiss Guard.Ĭarlo Ventresca – also called the “camerlengo,” the pope’s chamberlainĬardinal Mortati – Great Elector of the Conclave. Sylvie Baudeloque – Kohler’s secretary at CERNĬommander Olivetti – the commander of the Swiss GuardĬaptain Elias Rocher – the Swiss Guard’s second-in-command, nicknamed “orso” Vittoria Vetra – Leonardo Vetra’s adopted daughter and an insightful physicist. Janus – the Illuminati’s spy in the Vatican. Maximilian Kohler – a discrete particle physicist serving as director of CERN. Robert Langdon – a forty-year-old Harvard symbologist. Leonardo Vetra – a physicist at CERN and a priest. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth…the long-forgotten Illuminati lair. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra.
What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati.
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. Theme: Science Versus Faith, Passionate Dedication Versus Obsession, Public Versus Privateīook Summary: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown Setting: The Vatican and its surrounding sites of Catholic worship in Rome the CERN, Located in Geneva, Switzerland, a scientific counterpoint to the Vatican. Major Characters: Vittoria Vetra, Robert Langdon, Maxmillan Kohler, Leonardo Vetra, Gunther Glick. Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Historical Fiction
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