The Divine Comedy (Smith)

Symphony by Robert W. Smith

The Divine Comedy

by Robert W. Smith
Composed| 1995-1997
Movements| 4

The Divine Comedy Symphony is Robert W. Smith’s first complete symphonic band symphony. It was based on Dante's epic the Divine Comedy. Smith had studied this, and Homer’s Odyssey, at Troy.

The classical symphony consists of four movements—each following a distinct pattern:[1]

1. The Inferno
2. Purgatorio
3. The Ascension
4. Paradiso

## References

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1. ^ Traugott Rohner (2005). The Instrumentalist. Instrumentalist Co. p. 20. Retrieved August 6, 2013.

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Dante Alighieri

Works in Latin|

* De vulgari eloquentia
* De Monarchia
* Eclogues
* Epistle to Cangrande (disputed)

Works in Italian|

* La Vita Nuova
* Le Rime
* Convivio

Divine Comedy|

* Inferno
* Purgatorio
* Paradiso
* Cultural references

Books, articles, concepts|

* Contrapasso
* Dante Encyclopedia
* Enciclopedia Dantesca

People in Dante's life|

* Alighiero di Bellincione (father)
* Jacopo Alighieri (son)
* Guido Cavalcanti
* Brunetto Latini
* Beatrice Portinari
* Ferreto de' Ferreti

Papal commentaries|

* Cando lucis aeternae

Dante in popular culture|

* Dante crater
* Dante asteroid
* 83 Beatrix
* Dante Alighieri Academy
* Scuola Italiana Dante Alighieri
* Dante Park, New York
* Dante Park, Montreal
* Monument to Dante
* The Barque of Dante (1822 painting)
* Dante in Hell (1835 painting)
* Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil (1835 painting)
* Dante and Virgil (1850 painting)
* The Barque of Dante (1858 painting)
* Dante's Dream (1871 painting)
* Dante and Beatrice (1883 painting)
* Beatrice (1919 film)
* Dante Alighieri (1921 sculpture)
* Dante Symphony
* Italian battleship Dante Alighieri
* Devil May Cry
* Dante's Inferno (video game)

Related|

* Tomb of Dante
* Dante Society of America

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Dante's Divine Comedy

Characters
and locations|

| Inferno|

* Acheron
* Bertran de Born
* Bonturo Dati
* Brunetto Latini
* Caiaphas
* Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti
* Capaneus
* Cerberus
* Charon
* Chiron
* Ciacco
* Ciampolo
* Cocytus
* Dis
* Farinata degli Uberti
* Filippo Argenti
* Francesca da Rimini
* Geryon
* Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti
* Great refusal
* Gualdrada Berti
* Guido Guerra of Dovadola
* Guido I da Montefeltro
* Iacopo Rusticucci
* Malebolge
* Minos
* Nessus
* Paolo Malatesta
* Phlegethon
* Phlegyas
* Pietro della Vigna
* Plutus
* Pope Boniface VIII
* Pope Nicholas III
* Ruggieri degli Ubaldini
* Satan
* Styx
* Ugolino della Gherardesca
* Ulysses
* Vanni Fucci
* Virgil

| Circles of Hell|

* First
* Second
* Third
* Fourth
* Fifth
* Sixth
* Seventh
* Eighth
* Ninth

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Malebranche|

* Alichino
* Barbariccia
* Cagnazzo
* Calcabrina
* Ciriatto
* Draghignazzo
* Farfarello
* Malacoda
* Rubicante
* Scarmiglione

Purgatorio|

* Alagia Fieschi
* Arnaut Daniel
* Beatrice Portinari
* Beatrice d'Este
* Belacqua
* Bonagiunta Orbicciani
* Bonconte I da Montefeltro
* Casella
* Cato the Younger
* Conrad Malaspina
* Eunoe
* Forese Donati
* Gaia da Camino
* Garden of Eden
* Gherardo III da Camino
* Giovanna da Montefeltro
* Guido Guinizelli
* Hugh Capet
* Jacopo del Cassero
* Giovanna Visconti
* Lethe
* Manfred
* Marco Lombardo
* Matelda
* Nella Donati
* Nino Visconti
* Oderisi da Gubbio
* Omberto Aldobrandeschi
* Pia de' Tolomei
* Pope Adrian V
* Sapia Salvani
* Sordello
* Statius

Paradiso|

* Adam
* Bernard of Clairvaux
* Bonaventure
* Cacciaguida
* Charles Martel of Anjou
* Constance I of Sicily
* Constance II of Sicily
* Cunizza da Romano
* David
* Empyrean
* Folquet de Marselha
* Gabriel
* God
* Hierarchy of angels
* Imperial Eagle
* James the Great
* John the Apostle
* Justinian I
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Peter Damian
* Peter Lombard
* Piccarda
* Ripheus
* Solomon
* Saint Peter
* Thomas Aquinas
* Trajan

Concepts|

* Contrapasso
* Terza rima
* Great refusal

Verses|

* "Pape Satàn, pape Satàn aleppe"
* "Raphèl mai amècche zabì almi"

Adaptations|

| Architecture|

* Palacio Barolo (Palanti, 1923)
* Danteum (Terragni, 1938)

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Cinema|

* L'Inferno (1911)
* Dante's Inferno (1924)
* Dante's Inferno (1935)
* The Dante Quartet (1987)
* A TV Dante (1989)
* The Deep and Dreamless Sleep (2006)
* Dante's Inferno (2007)
* Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)
* La commedia di Amos Poe (2010)
* Dante's Hell Animated (2013)
* Botticelli Inferno (2016 documentary)

Comics|

* Demon Lord Dante (1971)
* Jimbo's Inferno (2006)
* Dante's Inferno (2023)
* Gert's Inferno (2023)

Illustrations|

* Divine Comedy Illustrated by Botticelli (1485)
* Jean Giraud (Paradiso, 1999)

Literature|

* The Story of Rimini (1816)
* La Comédie humaine (1830–1850)
* Earth Inferno (1905)
* The Cantos (1917–1962)
* As I Was Going Down Sackville Street (1937)
* The System of Dante's Hell (1965)
* Inferno (1976)
* The Dante Club (2003)
* Inferno (2013)

Music (classical)|

* Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (Liszt, 1849)
* Dante Symphony (Liszt, 1857)
* Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky, 1876)
* Francesca da Rimini (Rachmaninoff, 1904)
* Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai, 1914)
* Gianni Schicchi (Puccini, 1918)
* The Divine Comedy (Smith, 1996)
* Inferno (Ronchetti, 2020)

Music (modern)|

* Inferno (1973 album)
* "Dante's Inferno" (1995 song)
* Dante XXI (2006 album)
* A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011 album)

Paintings|

* The Barque of Dante (Delacroix, 1822)
* The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides (Blake, 1827)
* Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil (Scheffer, 1835)
* Dante in Hell (Flandrin, 1835)
* The Barque of Dante (Manet, 1850s)
* Pia de' Tolomei (Rossetti, 1868)
* Paolo and Francesca da Rimini (Rossetti, 1885)
* La barca de Aqueronte (Hidalgo, 1887)
* La Laguna Estigia (Hidalgo, 1887)

Sculptures|

* The Gates of Hell (Rodin, 1917)
* The Kiss (1882)
* The Thinker (1904)

Video games|

* King of Demons (1996)
* Devil May Cry series (2001)
* Bayonetta series (2009)
* Dante's Inferno (2010)
* The Lost (cancelled)
* ULTRAKILL (2020)

Related|

* Cultural references
* English translations
* In popular culture

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