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Born September 28, 1565 • Modena • Italy
Died April 25, 1635 (aged 69) • Modena • Italy
Notable Works “Considerazioni sopra le rime del Petrarca” • “Dieci libri di pensieri diversi di Alessandro Tassoni” • “The Rape of the Bucket”
Subjects Of Study poetry • Petrarch
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Gasparo, Count Gozzi
Italian author
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Italian author
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Leopardi, Giacomo
Giacomo Leopardi
Italian poet and philosopher
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
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Pietro Aretino
Italian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Riccardo Bacchelli
Italian author
Giosue Carducci, Italian author and poet, seated in a heavy fur-collared coat, looking directly at the camera in a formal portrait from around 1900.
Giosuè Carducci
Italian poet
Parini, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Parini
Italian author
Learn about Todomodo, a journal dedicated to the study of the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia's life and work
Leonardo Sciascia
Italian author
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Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
Italian poet
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Mario Luzi
Italian poet and literary critic
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Massimo Bontempelli
Italian poet
Giusti, detail of an oil painting by Ferdinando Rondoni; in the Uffizi, Florence
Giuseppe Giusti
Italian author
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Giovanni Battista Casti
Italian poet
Papini, Giovanni
Giovanni Papini
Italian author
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Umberto Saba
Italian author

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