Omberto Aldobrandeschi

Member of an Italian Nobel Family who appeared in Divine Comedy

Omberto Aldobrandeschi (? - 1259; sometimes anglicized as Omberto Aldobrandesco), was a member of the Aldobrandeschi family and a Count of Santa Fiora in the Maremma of Siena.^[1] Counts of Santa Fiora were usually in wars against the city of Siena. In 1259, Omberto was killed in one of these battles, at the village of Campagnatico. Omberto is mentioned in Canto XI of Purgatorio of Divine Comedy by Dante, as an example of a sinner of pride.^[2]

References

^ Dante Encyclopedia. Routledge. 2010. p. 660.
^ Alighieri, Dante. Divine Comedy. Canto XI of Purgatory.

Dante's Divine Comedy

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Inferno	Acheron Bertran de Born Bonturo Dati Brunetto Latini Caiaphas Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti Capaneus Cerberus Charon Chiron Ciacco Ciampolo Circles of Hell First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Cocytus Dis Farinata degli Uberti Filippo Argenti Francesca da Rimini Geryon Gianni Schicchi de' Cavalcanti Great refusal Gualdrada Berti Guido Guerra Guido I da Montefeltro Iacopo Rusticucci Malebranche Alichino Barbariccia Cagnazzo Calcabrina Ciriatto Draghignazzo Farfarello Graffiacane Libicocco Malacoda Rubicante Scarmiglione 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
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, Queen 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

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Adaptations

Architecture	Palacio Barolo (Palanti, 1923) Danteum (Terragni, 1938)
Cinema	L'Inferno (1911) Dante's Inferno (1924) Dante's Inferno (1935) The Dante Quartet (1987) A TV Dante (1989) Dante's Inferno (2007) Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) Dante's Hell Animated (2013) Botticelli Inferno (2016 documentary)
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) Demon Lord Dante (1971) Inferno (1976) The Dante Club (2003) Jimbo's Inferno (2006) 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) Dante's Inferno (2010) The Lost (cancelled)