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Born May 15, 1730 • Padua • Italy
Died November 4, 1808 (aged 78) • Italy
Notable Works “Poesie di Ossian” • “Saggio sulla filosofia delle lingue”
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Attilio Bertolucci
Italian poet, literary critic and translator
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
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Vittorio Sereni
Italian poet, author, editor and translator
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Paolo Antonio Rolli
Italian author
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Giorgio Manganelli
Italian author
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
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Babette Deutsch
American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
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Horace Gregory
American poet and critic
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
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Lodovico Castelvetro
Italian critic
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Mario Luzi
Italian poet and literary critic
Monti, detail of an oil painting by A. Appiani; in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Vincenzo Monti
Italian author
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Anna Banti
Italian author and critic
Pindemonte, Ippolito
Ippolito Pindemonte
Italian writer
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Italian author

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