Italy
See also: List of Italian writers
- (c. 1230 – 1306) Jacopone da Todi
- (1261–1329) Albertino Mussato (Latin language)
- (1410–1484) Feo Belcari
- (1469–1527) Niccolò Machiavelli
- (1470–1520) Bernardo Dovizio da Bibbiena
- (1474–1533) Ludovico Ariosto
- (before 1480–after 1505) Publio Filippo Mantovano
- (1492–1556) Pietro Aretino
- (1492–1573) Donato Giannotti
- (ca. 1500–ca. 1550) Gigio Artemio Giancarli
- (1503–1531) Lodovico Martelli
- (1503–1584) Anton Francesco Grazzini {Il Lasca }
- (1504–1573) Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio
- (1507–1566) Annibale Caro
- (1508–ca. 1568) Ludovico Dolce
- (1518–1587) Giovan Maria Cecchi
- (ca. 1525–ca. 1586) Giovanni Battista Cini
- (1532–1619) Vincenzo Giusti
- (1535–1607) Muzio Manfredi
- (1535–1615) Giambattista Della Porta
- (1537–1586) Girolamo Bargagli
- (1538–1612) Gian Battista Guarini
- (1541–1585) Luigi Groto
- (1548–1600) Giordano Bruno
- (c. 1560 – 1628) Federico Della Valle
- (1568–1642) Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Younger
- (1675–1755) Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei
- (1698–1782) Pietro Metastasio
- (1707–1793) Carlo Goldoni
- (1720–1806) Carlo Gozzi
- (1728–1787) Ferdinando Galiani
- (1749–1803) Vittorio Alfieri
- (1754–1828) Vincenzo Monti
- (1776–1834) Giovanni Giraud
- (1778–1827) Ugo Foscolo
- (1782–1861) Gian Battista Niccolini
- (1785–1873) Alessandro Manzoni
- (1788–1858) Francesco Augusto Bon
- (1800–1846) Carlo Marenco
- (1816–1882) Paolo Giacometti
- (1822–1889) Paolo Ferrari
- (1830–1881) Pietro Cossa
- (1839–1915) Luigi Capuana
- (1842–1911) Antonio Fogazzaro
- (1847–1906) Giuseppe Giacosa
- (1852–1909) Alfredo Oriani
- (1852–1927) Giuseppe Baffico
- (1857–1934) Camillo Antona-Traversi
- (1860–1934) Salvatore Di Giacomo
- (1860–1939) Giannino Antona-Traversi
- (1861–1943) Roberto Bracco
- (1863–1938) Gabriele D'Annunzio
- (1867–1927) Augusto Novelli
- (1867–1936) Luigi Pirandello
- (1867–1951) Sabatino Lopez
- (1868–1912) Enrico Annibale Butti
- (1870–1916) Carlo Bertolazzi
- (1874–1934) Dario Niccodemi
- (1876–1944) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- (1877–1949) Sem Benelli
- (1878–1960) Massimo Bontempelli
- (1880–1918) Guillaume Apollinaire (French language)
- (1880–1947) Luigi Chiarelli
- (1882–1921) Ercole Luigi Morselli
- (1882–1942) Luigi Antonelli
- (1885–1954) Enrico Cavacchioli
- (1891–1949) Gherardo Gherardi
- (1891–1957) Alberto Casella
- (1892–1953) Ugo Betti
- (1898–1992) Valentino Bompiani
- (1899–1999) Enrico Bassano
- (1900–1984) Eduardo De Filippo
- (1901–1959) Silvio Giovaninetti
- (1903–1933) Leo Ferrero
- (1907–1954) Vitaliano Brancati
- (1911–1980) Diego Fabbri
- (1911–2007) Gian Carlo Menotti (Italian language and English language)
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Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery—back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)