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Born November 11, 1493 • Bergamo
Died September 5, 1569 (aged 75)
Notable Works “Amadigi”
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Giambattista Marino
Italian poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Italian poet Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
Italian poet
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Dante
Dante
Italian poet
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Pope Leo XIII seated in formal papal robes and cape, wearing a cross necklace, facing forward, in a black and white portrait from 1878.
Leo XIII
pope
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.
Ludovico Ariosto
Italian author
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Pietro Metastasio.
Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet
Leopardi, Giacomo
Giacomo Leopardi
Italian poet and philosopher
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
Italian author
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Tommaso Campanella
Italian philosopher and poet
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence
Ugo Foscolo
Italian writer
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Gabriele Rossetti
Italian scholar

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