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Facts

Born June 29, 1798 • Italy
Died June 14, 1837 (aged 38) • Naples • Italy
Notable Works “A Silvia” • “Appressamento della morte” • “Operette morali” • “The Poems of Leopardi”

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Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
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Eugenio Montale
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo
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Dante
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Petrarch
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
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Pope Leo XIII seated in formal papal robes and cape, wearing a cross necklace, facing forward, in a black and white portrait from 1878.
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
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Italian poet Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
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Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.
Ludovico Ariosto
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Pietro Metastasio.
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Tommaso Campanella
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Cesare Pavese
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Gabriele Rossetti
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