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Born	December 13, 1720 • Venice • Italy
Died	April 4, 1806 (aged 85) • Venice • Italy
Notable Works	“La Tartana degli influssi” • “Turandot”
Subjects Of Study	commedia dell’arte

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Vittorio, Count Alfieri

Italian author

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

Battista Guarini

Italian poet

Ettore Petrolini

Italian actor and author

Ugo Betti

Italian author

Giuseppe Parini

Italian author

Mario Luzi

Italian poet and literary critic

Massimo Bontempelli

Italian poet

Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

Giovambattista Andreini

Italian actor and author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Sylvia Plath

American author

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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