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This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. [6] Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of ...
Alba de Céspedes was a Cuban-Italian writer from Rome. [182] She was an anti-Fascist and was involved in the Italian Resistance. [182] Her work was greatly influenced by the history and culture that developed around World War II. [182] Although her books were bestsellers, Alba has been overlooked in recent studies of Italian women writers. [182]
Subcategories. This category has the following 38 subcategories, out of 38 total. Italian writers by century (31 C) Italian writers by city (27 C) Writers by region in Italy (16 C) Writers from the Papal States (6 P)
elenaferrante.com. Elena Ferrante (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛːlena ferˈrante]) is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works. [1][2] Time magazine called Ferrante one of the 100 most ...
Filippo Zamboni. Giselda Zani. Aldo Zargani. Luisa Zeni. Corrado Zoli. Categories: 20th-century writers by nationality. 20th-century Italian people by occupation. Italian writers by century.
Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]; c.May 1265 – September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri[ note 1 ] and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante (English: / ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti /) [ 3 ][ 4 ] was an Italian [ a ] poet, writer, and philosopher. 6 His ...
Giovanni Boccaccio (UK: / bəˈkætʃioʊ / bə-KATCH-ee-oh, US: / boʊˈkɑːtʃ (i) oʊ, bəˈ -/ boh-KAH-ch (ee)oh, bə-; Italian: [dʒoˈvanni bokˈkattʃo]; 16 June 1313 [1] – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well ...