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Born March 4, 1916 • Bologna • Italy
Died April 13, 2000 (aged 84) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “Five Stories of Ferrara” • “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”

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Bassani, 1987
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Elsa Morante
Italian author
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Massimo Bontempelli
Italian poet
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
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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Italo Calvino
Italian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
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Riccardo Bacchelli
Italian author
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian-French author
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Peretz Markish
Russian writer
Pasolini, 1964
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian author and director
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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Marino Moretti
Italian poet
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Vittorio Sereni
Italian poet, author, editor and translator
Alvaro, Corrado: Gente d'Aspromonte
Corrado Alvaro
Italian author
Papini, Giovanni
Giovanni Papini
Italian author

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