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Deciphering the Code Cerca Trova from "Inferno". Langdon and Sienna analyze the projected image. Langdon realizes the ten letters in the Malebolge, CATROVACER, are a scrambled version of the Italian phrase…

Early morning, Monday, March 18

Deciphering the Code Cerca Trova

Langdon and Sienna analyze the projected image. Langdon realizes the ten letters in the Malebolge, CATROVACER, are a scrambled version of the Italian phrase 'cerca trova' (seek and find). This phrase is a famous hidden message in Giorgio Vasari's mural in the Palazzo Vecchio. Langdon also realizes his delirious mumbling of 'very sorry' was actually 'Vasari, Vasari.'