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Dante Alighieri
He was an Italian poet and writer, known for writing the Divine comedy, one of the fundamental works of the transition from medieval to Renaissance th...
Giovanni Boccaccio
He was an Italian writer and humanist. He is one of the parents, along with Dante and Petrarca, of Italian literature.
Andrea Camilleri
Italian writer, theatrical and television director and novelist. In 1994, the first novel in the series starring Commissioner Montalbano was published...
Cayo Julio César
Roman political and military, he reached the highest magistratures of the Roman State and dominated the policy of the Republic after winning in the ci...
Marco Tulio Cicerón
He was a jurist, politician, philosopher, writer and Roman speaker. It is considered one of the largest rhetorical and stylist of Latin prose of the R...
Carlo Collodi
He was an Italian journalist and writer, known mainly for his novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio.".
Edmondo De Amicis
He was an Italian writer, novelist, journalist and author of travel books. He is more remembered, above all, for his novel Heart: Diario de un niño, o...
Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist, activist and writer. She was the first Italian woman war correspondent. As a writer, he sold 20 million copies around the world; a...
Elena Ferrante
It is a pseudonym with which great literary successes have been signed in Italy, then translated into languages from all over the world.
Francesca Giannone
He graduated in communication science and studied at the CSC in Rome, the oldest film school in Europe. He has published several short stories in lite...
Natalia Ginzburg
Escritora, ensayista y editora italiana, una de las voces más importantes de la literatura italiana del siglo XX. Hija de una familia intelectual anti...
Carlo Goldoni
It was an Italian playwright of the Serene Republic of Venice in the Italian, Veneto and French languages.
Giovanni Guareschi
He was an Italian writer and journalist. His father had a small shop and his mother was a teacher; he had a happy childhood until his family was affec...
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian archaeologist and writer, known mainly for his historical novels about the ancient world.
Cayo Petronio Árbitro
Born at some point between the ages 14 and 27 in Massalia (now Marseilles) and died ca. of the year 65 and 66 in Cumas, he was a Roman writer and poli...
