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Born August 20, 1901 • Modica • Italy
Died June 14, 1968 (aged 66) • Naples • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1959)
Notable Works “Giorno dopo giorno” • “Tartuffe”
Movement / Style Hermeticism

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Gina Lollobrigida and Salvatore Quasimodo
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
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Vittorio Sereni
Italian poet, author, editor and translator
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T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
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Nigerian author
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
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Joost van den Vondel
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Dutch writer
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
Roman author
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
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Giambattista Giraldi
Italian poet and dramatist
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Melchiorre Cesarotti
Italian author
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Peruvian author
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Lodovico Castelvetro
Italian critic
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Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
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