Italian writers

A

• Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet, author of the epic poem Orlando furioso (1516), Orlando Enraged. He was born at Reggio, in Emilia. ...

B

• Alessandro Baricco
• Giorgio Bassani

• Stefano Benni
• Mario Benzing
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Vitaliano Brancati
• Gesualdo Bufalino
• Aldo Busi
• Dino Buzzati

Alessandro Baricco (b. ... Giorgio Bassani (March 4, 1916 - April 13, 2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. ... Stefano Benni (August 12, 1947, Bologna) is an Italian satirical writer and journalist. ... Mario Benzing (December 7, 1896 – November 29, 1958) was an Italian novelist and translator of German origins, often forced to sign as Mario Benzi because of the periods fascist Italian laws. ... Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular. ... Vitaliano Brancati (July 24, 1907-September 25, 1954) was an Italian writer. ... Gesualdo Bufalino. ... Aldo Busi (1948-) is an Italian writer and translator. ... Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 - January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. ...

C

• Italo Calvino
• Andrea Camilleri
• Greg Camilleri
• Mauro Campagnoli
• Dino Campana
• Achille Campanile
• Luigi Capuana
• Carlo Collodi

Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. ... Andrea Camilleri (Porto Empedocle, Agrigento, 1925) is a Italian writer. ... Mauro Campagnoli (born in Turin, 1975), is an Italian anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and composer. ... Dino Campana was born 20 August 1885 in Marradi, Italy near Faenza. ... Achille Campanile (Rome, September 28, 1899 - Lariano, January 4, 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humor and word play. ... -1... Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 - October 26, 1890), better known as Carlo Collodi, or simply Collodi, was an Italian writer and journalist. ...

D

• Gabriele D'Annunzio
• Massimo D'Azeglio
• Edmondo De Amicis
• Dario de Judicibus
• Grazia Deledda

dAnnunzio. ... Massimo Taparelli, marquis dAzeglio (1798 - January 15, 1866), was an Italian statesman and novelist. ... Edmondo De Amicis (Oneglia (Imperia), October 21, 1846 - Bordighera, 1908), is a notable Italian childrens writer. ... Dario de Judicibus Dario de Judicibus (Brescia, Italy (EU), June 25th, 1960 - living), journalist, writer of essays and novels, consultant of computer science and business strategy, involved in social volunteering. ... Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871 – August 15, 1936), born in Nuoro, Sardinia, was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. ...

E

• Umberto Eco

Photo of Umberto Eco by Robert Birnbaum Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose and his many essays. ...

F

• Beppe Fenoglio
• Dario Fo
• Antonio Fogazzaro
• Ugo Foscolo

Beppe Fenoglio (born Giuseppe Fenoglio 1 March 1922, Alba - 18 February 1963, Turin) was an Italian writer. ... Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926) is an Italian satirist playwright, theater director and actor, and composer. ... Antonio Fogazzaro (March 25, 1842 - March 7, 1911) was an Italian novelist born in Vicenza from a rich family. ... Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), Italian writer, was born at Zakynthos in the Ionian Isles on 6 Febraury 1778. ...

G

• Carlo Emilio Gadda
• Natalia Ginzburg
• Giovanni Guareschi

Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is an Italian writer of the 20th century. ... Natalia Ginzburg née Levi (July 14, 1916, Palermo—October 7, 1991, Rome) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics, and philosophy. ... Giovannino Guareschi (May 1, 1908 - July 22, 1968) was an Italian journalist and humorist author whose most famous creation is a priest Don Camillo. ...

L

• Brunetto Latini
• Giacomo Leopardi
• Carlo Levi
• Primo Levi
• Emilio Lussu

Brunetto Latini (c. ... Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi, Count (June 29, 1798 – June 14, 1837) was a major Italian Romantic poet, often considered alongside Dante and Petrarch as one of Italys greatest poets and thinkers. ... Carlo Levi Carlo Levi (29 November 1902 – January 4, 1975) was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor. ... Primo Levi Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was an Italian chemist and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. ... Emilio Lussu (Armungia, Cagliari, 1890 - Rome 1975), a soldier, a politician and a writer from Sardinia, Italy. ...

M

• Fabio Maniscalco
• Alessandro Manzoni
• Franco Mimmi
• Grazyna Miller
• Eugenio Montale
• Elsa Morante
• Alberto Moravia

Fabio Maniscalco is an Italian archaeologist, specialist about the protection of cultural property and essayist. ... Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (March 7, 1785–May 22, 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. ... Image:Per siti. ... Grazyna Miller (1957) is a poet born in Poland. ... Eugenio Montale Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896, Genoa – September 12, 1981, Milan) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and traslator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. ... Elsa Morante (August 18, 1918 - 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La Storia (History). ... Alberto Moravia (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990; born Alberto Pincherle) was one of the leading Italian novelists in the 20th century. ...

N

• Alberto Nessi

P

• Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Elina Patané
• Cesare Pavese
• Tommaso Pincio
• Luigi Pirandello
• Angelo Poliziano
• Luigi Pulci

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 - November 2, 1975) was an Italian poet, intellectual, film director, and writer. ... Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 – August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. ... Tommaso Pincio, pseudonym of an Italian writer author of four novels, including Love-shaped story, the only one translated in English so far. ... Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. ... Politian (also known as Angelo Poliziano or Angelo Ambrogini) (1454 - 1494) was an Italian classical scholar and poet. ... Luigi Pulci (15 August 1432 - 1484) was an Italian poet most famous for his Morgante, an epic story of a giant who is converted to Christianity and follows Orlando, all written in a mock-heroic tone. ...

Q

• Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo (August 20, 1901 - June 14, 1968 ) was an Italian author. ...

S

• Umberto Saba
• Alberto Savinio
• Leonardo Sciascia
• Beppe Severgnini
• Ignazio Silone
• Mario Soldati
• Italo Svevo

Umberto Saba (March 9, 1883 - August 26, 1957) was the pseudonym of Italian poet and novelist, Umberto Poli. ... Alberto Savinio, real name Andrea De Chirico, (Athens, August 25, 1891 - Florence, May 5, 1952) was an Italian writer and painter, brother of the more famous Giorgio De Chirico. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Beppe Severgnini Giuseppe Severgnini (born December 26, 1956 in Crema), commonly known as Beppe, is a well-known Italian journalist, writer and columnist. ... Ignazio Silone Ignazio Silone (May 1, 1900 - August 22, 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author. ... Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian Jewish businessman and author of novels, plays, and short stories, who converted to Roman Catholicism after marrying Livia Veneziani. ...

T

• Torquato Tasso
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 – April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered; 1575), in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. ... Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (born Palermo, December 23, 1896, died Rome, July 23, 1957), was Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa. ...

U

• Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was an Italian poet. ...

V

• Giovanni Verga
• Elio Vittorini
• Sandro Veronesi

Giovanni Verga. ... Elio Vittorini (July 23, 1908 - February 12, 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. ...

See also

• Italian literature
• List of Italian language poets
• Lists of authors