Rosso inferno? Sulla dimensione cromatica nelle visioni bizantine dell’aldilà

The meagre chromatic notations scattered in the descriptions of the otherworld that can be read in the literature of the Greek Middle Ages mostly concern the blinding whiteness of the light that floods heaven, and the darkness that envelops the infernal moors. This has to do with the moral and symbolic nature of these descriptions: that the Byzantines did not imagine the afterlife as a black-and-white world emerges from some details scattered throughout the texts and from comparison with iconography.