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Born August 29, 1724 • Italy
Died February 5, 1803 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Novelle galanti” • “Poema tartaro” • “The Court and Parliament of Beasts”
Pietro Metastasio.
Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet
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Pietro Aretino
Italian author
Parini, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Parini
Italian author
Da Ponte, Lorenzo
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Italian writer
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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Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
Italian poet
Giusti, detail of an oil painting by Ferdinando Rondoni; in the Uffizi, Florence
Giuseppe Giusti
Italian author
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Paolo Antonio Rolli
Italian author
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Alessandro Tassoni
Italian author
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Gasparo, Count Gozzi
Italian author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein
American writer
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Randolph Stow
Australian writer
Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
Peter Cornelius
German composer and author
Kellgren
Johan Henrik Kellgren
Swedish poet
Goldfaden, Avrom
Avrom Goldfaden
Jewish author
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Nahum Tate
English writer
Lidner, detail of an oil painting by Carl-Fredrik von Breda; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Bengt Lidner
Swedish poet

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