Florentine music critic Alessandro Michelucci writes in Cultura commestibile:

“The passion of the composer for Italy does not at all end with the two discs ITALIA and RITORNELLO. Confirming this is the monumental “Dante Trilogy” [TRILOGIA DANTESCA] for piano, orchestra and chorus, completed in 2006. 2015 marks the 750th anniversary of the poet’s birth: Cacioppo hopes for a premiere before the end of the year. It would be beautiful if some Florentine entity acted to bring this about. Our city should take part in the effort: Dante Alighieri, if we are not mistaken, was born in Florence.”