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  2. Italian poetry - Wikipedia

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    Ugo Foscolo (1778 - 1827): best known for his poem "Dei Sepolcri". Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837): highly valued for his Canti and Operette morali, author of L'infinito, one of the most famous poems of Italian literary history. Giosuè Carducci (1835 - 1907) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1906.

  3. Guido Cavalcanti - Wikipedia

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    Guido says he was prompted to write it by his mistress, according to a formula very widespread in the tradition of love poetry. As such, Guido's doctrine draws on the greatest medieval poets or scholars, such as Chrétien de Troyes and Brunetto Latini. There are several hints to the Roman de la Rose, then considered the "Bible" of courtly love.

  4. List of Italian-language poets - Wikipedia

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    List of poets who wrote in Italian (or Italian dialects). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  5. Giacomo Leopardi - Wikipedia

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    The last deceit, love, is dead too. He thought that love was one of the few things that makes life worth living but he changed his mind after his beloved Fanny's refusal. She, moreover, was in love with Antonio Ranieri, Leopardi's best friend, who remained with the poet until the end. His desire, his hope, and his "sweet deceits" are ended.

  6. Category:Italian poems - Wikipedia

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    Italian humorous poems (4 P) P. Poetry by Petrarch (5 P) Pages in category "Italian poems" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.

  7. Giacomo da Lentini - Wikipedia

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    His poetry was originally written in literary Sicilian, though it only survives in Tuscan. Although some scholars believe that da Lentini's Italian poetry about courtly love was an adaptation of the Provençal poetry of the troubadours , William Baer argues that the first eight lines of the earliest Sicilian sonnets, rhymed ABABABAB, are ...

  8. CIL 4.5296 - Wikipedia

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    CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.

  9. Orlando Innamorato - Wikipedia

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    Orlando Innamorato ([orˈlando innamoˈraːto]; known in English as "Orlando in Love"; in Italian titled "Orlando innamorato" as the "I" is never capitalized) is an epic poem written by the Italian Renaissance author Matteo Maria Boiardo. The poem is a romance concerning the heroic knight Orlando . It was published between 1483 (first two books ...