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Born May 12, 1878 • Como • Italy
Died July 21, 1960 (aged 82) • Rome • Italy
Founder “900”
Notable Works “Introduzioni e discorsi” • “La guardia alla luna” • “L’amante fedele”
Subjects Of Study Italian literature
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Curzio Malaparte
Italian writer
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian-French author
T.S. Eliot stands at a chalkboard, writing a diagram with letters and Greek symbols representing characters for a play, in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study.
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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
Silone, 1969
Ignazio Silone
Italian author
Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence
Ugo Foscolo
Italian writer
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Mario Luzi
Italian poet and literary critic
Papini, Giovanni
Giovanni Papini
Italian author
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Ennio Flaiano
Italian author and critic
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer

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