Pietro Aretino: Quick Facts

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Born	April 20, 1492 • Arezzo • Italy
Died	October 21, 1556 (aged 64) • Venice • Italy
Notable Works	“Cortigiana” • “Orazia” • “Ragionamenti” • “Sonetti lussuriosi”

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

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Francisco de Sá de Miranda

Portuguese author

Giordano Bruno

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Alfieri

Vittorio, Count Alfieri

Italian author

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Gian Giorgio Trissino

Italian writer

Parini, Giuseppe

Giuseppe Parini

Italian author

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Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English author

Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

David Garrick as Richard III

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

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Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

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Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Ludvig Holberg

Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg

Scandinavian author

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Marivaux, Pierre

Pierre Marivaux

French author

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John Marston

British dramatist

Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sir John Suckling

English poet and dramatist

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines