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Born February 4, 1892 • Italy
Died June 9, 1953 (aged 61) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works “Corruption in the Palace of Justice” • “Crime on Goat Island” • “La padrona” • “Landslide” • “The Fugitive” • “The Queen and the Rebels”
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Italian poet Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
Italian poet
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
Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence
Ugo Foscolo
Italian writer
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Pietro Aretino
Italian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Alfieri
Vittorio, Count Alfieri
Italian author
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Carlo, Conte Gozzi
Italian author
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian-French author
Battista Guarini, engraving by T. Cross, 1647, frontispiece to Il pastor fido by Guarini
Battista Guarini
Italian poet
Parini, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Parini
Italian author
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Mario Luzi
Italian poet and literary critic
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Massimo Bontempelli
Italian poet
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Giambattista Giraldi
Italian poet and dramatist
Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.
Ludovico Ariosto
Italian author
Pietro Metastasio.
Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet
Silone, 1969
Ignazio Silone
Italian author

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