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unusual facts about The Divine Comedy



A Humument

Phillips has used the same technique (always with the Mallock source material) in many of his other works, including the illustration of his own translation of Dante's Inferno, (published in 1985).

Alecto

Alecto appeared in Virgil's Aeneid, in Dante's Inferno, in Miklós Zrínyi's Siege of Sziget and appeared in Dostoyevsky books, in his subliminar psyche, as one of the three Erinyes, and also in Handel's Rinaldo HWV 7 in the Aria "Sibillar gli angui d'Aletto".

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

The British rock group Keane based their song "A Bad Dream" (featured on the album Under the Iron Sea) on it, and a recording of the poem, read by Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, is played before the song at live venues, explaining their reasons for the lyrics.

Arthur Hertzberg

Hertzberg recalled that as a teenager in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, he would not accept the notion that the literary world of talmudic learning, the kabbalistic books and the writing of the chasidim were less worthy as compared to the Iliad, the Odyssey or Dante's Inferno.

Crouch End Festival Chorus

It has performed a number of times with film composer Ennio Morricone and has recorded a significant amount of material for film and television, appearing on more than 60 CDs including albums by Katherine Jenkins, Alfie Boe, Jonathan Ansell and Lesley Garrett and by pop artists Travis, The Divine Comedy, and Ray Davies.

Dan Simmons

"Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living In Hell", a 1988 short story lampooning televangelists included in Prayers to Broken Stones, is about a brief return to earth by the title character, an inhabitant of Dante's Inferno

Duckworth–Lewis method

"The Duckworth Lewis Method" is the name of a band formed by Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy and Thomas Walsh of Pugwash, which recorded a self-titled concept album of cricket songs.

Gentleman Who Fell

Gentleman Who Fell was the first single released by Milla Jovovich from her debut album The Divine Comedy.

Giovanni Malatesta

He is chiefly famous for the domestic tragedy of 1285, recorded in Dante's Inferno, when, having detected his wife, Francesca da Polenta (Francesca da Rimini), in adultery with his brother Paolo, he killed them both with his own hands.

Jonathan Noyce

2006 saw Jonathan join The Divine Comedy for some European dates and one off television appearances.

Mammon

Mammon is somewhat similar to the Greek god Plutus, and the Roman Dis Pater, in his description, and it is likely that he was at some point based on them; especially since Plutus appears in The Divine Comedy as a wolf-like demon of wealth, wolves being associated with greed in the Middle Ages.

Masami Kurumada

Kurumada also draws inspiration from universal knowledge and folklore, such as Greek mythology, Japanese and Chinese mythology, Buddhist and Hinduist doctrine, Trascendental philosophies, and classic works of literature, such as Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, and Outlaws of the Marsh, to name a few.

My Lovely Horse

The song, which lasts 1:23, was released on CD as a B-side to The Divine Comedy's 1999 single "Gin Soaked Boy".

Pope Martin IV

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Martin IV in Purgatory, where the reader is reminded of the former pontiff's fondness for Lake Bolsena eels and Vernaccia wine.

Purgatorio

Franz Liszt's Symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia (1856) has a "Purgatorio" movement, as does Robert W. Smith's The Divine Comedy (2006).

Rheinallt H Rowlands

This was followed by Bukowski in 1996, which received significant press attention, drawing comparisons with Scott Walker, Ennio Morricone, and The Divine Comedy.

Robodemons

The level structure is similar to passages found in the Divine Comedy.

Setanta Records

The Divine Comedy also provided the soundtrack for the immensely popular Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.

Siger of Brabant

In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, Siger of Brabant is found in the Fourth Sphere of Paradise for being a positive example of Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude.

The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart

Although the album was inspired by the 1927 film Metropolis, it is not intended to be a concept album, unlike two of the band's previous studio albums, Dante XXI (based on Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy) and A-Lex (based on the 1962 book A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess).

Tiago Iorc

Chase—who had previously worked with groups such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Tahiti 80, and The Divine Comedy—pre-produced Tiago's album over the internet before actually meeting with him in Rio de Janeiro for recording sessions.

Toos van Holstein

But she is also inspired by as well medieval writings as the Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) by the Italian Dante Alighieri and the Germanic Edda found on Iceland as the more modern writers like Garcia Márquez and Tolkien.

Usury

In The Divine Comedy Dante places the usurers in the inner ring of the seventh circle of hell.


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Antonio Manetti

Although Manetti never himself published his research regarding the topic, the earliest Renaissance Florentine editors of the poem, Cristoforo Landino and Girolamo Benivieni, reported the results of his researches in their respective editions of the Divine Comedy.

Bôa

They recorded three songs, "Twilight", "Deeply", and "Elephant" in London, with producer Darren Allison (Spiritualized, The Divine Comedy) at the Red Bus studions in London.

Edgardo Saporetti

Among his works there was a series of illustrations of the Divine Comedy for the publisher and photographer Vittorio Alinari.

Simon Little

A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Little joined The Divine Comedy in 2002 and is still a regular member of the band.

Think Fast, Father Ted

The record that the Dancing Priest is seen dancing to is a pastiche of Beatnik Fly by Johnny and the Hurricanes probably recorded by The Divine Comedy (and he encourages Ted to join him in his dancing, saying prayer isn't the only way to praise God, and it keeps you fit too).