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Also Known As Umberto Poli
Born March 9, 1883 • Trieste • Austria-Hungary
Died August 25, 1957 (aged 74) • Gorizia • Italy
Notable Works “Il canzoniere”
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Riccardo Bacchelli
Italian author
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Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
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Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Giosue Carducci, Italian author and poet, seated in a heavy fur-collared coat, looking directly at the camera in a formal portrait from around 1900.
Giosuè Carducci
Italian poet
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Mario Luzi
Italian poet and literary critic
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Massimo Bontempelli
Italian poet
Papini, Giovanni
Giovanni Papini
Italian author
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Alessandro Tassoni
Italian author
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Attilio Bertolucci
Italian poet, literary critic and translator
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Melchiorre Cesarotti
Italian author
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Vincenzo Cardarelli
Italian author
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Gasparo, Count Gozzi
Italian author
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
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author

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