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Born May 20, 1470 • Venice • Italy
Died January 18, 1547 (aged 76) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “Gli Asolani” • “Prose della volgar lingua”
Movement / Style bembismo
Subjects Of Study Italian language • grammar
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Vittorio Sereni
Italian poet, author, editor and translator
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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Paolo Antonio Rolli
Italian author
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Attilio Bertolucci
Italian poet, literary critic and translator
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Melchiorre Cesarotti
Italian author
Pindemonte, Ippolito
Ippolito Pindemonte
Italian writer
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S.E.K. Mqhayi
South African poet and novelist
Morris-Jones, oil painting by Christopher Williams, 1924; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Sir John Morris-Jones
Welsh author, scholar, and educator
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Italian artist
Dante
Dante
Italian poet
Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.
Petrarch
Italian poet
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian poet and scholar
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Pope Leo XIII seated in formal papal robes and cape, wearing a cross necklace, facing forward, in a black and white portrait from 1878.
Leo XIII
pope
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Italian poet Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
Italian poet
Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.
Ludovico Ariosto
Italian author

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