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Also Known As Italiano

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
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Italian poet
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Italian author
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John Ciardi
American poet and critic
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Martin Opitz
German poet
Kazantzákis, Níkos
Níkos Kazantzákis
Greek writer
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
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Lodovico Castelvetro
Italian critic
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Italian poet, author, editor and translator
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Vincenzo Monti
Italian author
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Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
American author
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Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke
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Paolo Antonio Rolli
Italian author
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Anna Banti
Italian author and critic
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Samuel Putnam
American editor and author
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William Painter
English author
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Antonio Brucioli
Italian humanist
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Giorgio Manganelli
Italian author

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