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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...
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...
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.
Antonio Tabucchi
Italian writer and scholar who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena in Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an ...
