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Also Known As Cynthius • Cinzio • Cinthio
Born 1504 • Ferrara • Italy
Died December 30, 1573 (aged 69) • Ferrara • Italy
Notable Works “Discorso delle comedie e delle tragedie” • “Ecatommiti” • “Egle” • “Ercole” • “Orbecche”
Luigi Pirandello
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Torquato Tasso
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Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
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Pietro Aretino
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Alfieri
Vittorio, Count Alfieri
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Mario Luzi
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence
Ugo Foscolo
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Dino Buzzati
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Carlo, Conte Gozzi
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Gian Giorgio Trissino
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Battista Guarini, engraving by T. Cross, 1647, frontispiece to Il pastor fido by Guarini
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Ettore Petrolini
Italian actor and author

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