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List of poets who wrote in Italian (or Italian dialects).


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* Antonio Abati *
Luigi Alamanni Luigi Alamanni (sometimes spelt Alemanni) (6 March 149518 April 1556) was an Italian poet and statesman. He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet. He was credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry. Biography Alamanni was ...
* Aleardo Aleardi *
Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His '' Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: ...
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Cecco Angiolieri Francesco Angiolieri, known as Cecco Angiolieri (; c. 1260 – c. 1312) was an Italian poet. Biography Cecco Angiolieri was born in Siena in 1260, son of Angioliero, who was himself the son of Angioliero Solafìca who was for several years a banke ...
* Gabriele D'Annunzio * Ludovico Ariosto *
Francis of Assisi Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi ( it, Francesco d'Assisi; – 3 October 1226), was a mystic Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most venerated figures in Christianit ...


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Nanni Balestrini Nanni Balestrini (2 July 1935 – 19 May 2019) was an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement. Context Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers' movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for ...
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Dario Bellezza Dario Bellezza (5 September 1944 – 31 March 1996) was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes. Biography Dario Bellezza was born in Rome on 5 September 1944. After his studies at a ''liceo class ...
* Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli ( Roman dialect) * Attilio Bertolucci *
Carlo Betocchi Carlo Betocchi (23 January 1899 – 25 May 1986) was an Italian writer. References 1899 births 1986 deaths Writers from Turin 20th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian poets {{Italy-poet-stub ...
* Alberta Bigagli * Giovanni Boccaccio * Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti * Carlo Bordini * Franco Buffoni *
Michelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was in ...
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Helle Busacca alt=The poet circa 1950 Helle Busacca (; San Piero Patti, 21 December 1915 – Florence, 15 January 1996) was an Italian poet, painter, and writer. Life Born in a well-to-do family in San Piero Patti, Province of Messina, Sicily, Helle Busacc ...
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Ignazio Buttitta Ignazio Buttitta (19 September 1899 – 5 April 1997) was an Italian poet who wrote predominantly in Sicilian. Biography Born at Bagheria, Italy into a merchant's family, after having taken part in World War I Buttitta joined the Italian Soci ...
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Sicilian language Sicilian ( scn, sicilianu, link=no, ; it, siciliano) is a Romance language that is spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands. A variant, ''Calabro-Sicilian'', is spoken in southern Calabria, where it is called Southern Calabr ...
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Paolo Buzzi Paolo Buzzi (15 February 1874, Milan – 18 February 1956) was an Italian futurist playwright and poet. Biography Buzzi studied law in Pavia, and at the same time attended lectures in literature. In 1891, he won the milanese ''Concorso di Po ...


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Dino Campana Dino Campana (20 August 1885 – 1 March 1932) was an Italian visionary poet. His fame rests on his only published book of poetry, the '' Canti Orfici'' ("Orphic Songs"), as well as his wild and erratic personality, including his ill-fated love ...
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Giorgio Caproni Giorgio Caproni ( Livorno, 7 January 1912 – 22 January 1990, Rome) was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator, especially from French. His work was also part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympi ...
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Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (; 27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, h ...
* Guido Cavalcanti *
Roberto Carifi Roberto Carifi (born 1948 in Pistoia), is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator, supported since the beginning from Piero Bigongiari, one of the major exponents of Florentine Hermeticism. Considered one of the most important poet and intell ...
* Gabriello Chiabrera * Compagnetto da Prato


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* Antonio De Santis (Italian and Larinese dialect) * Milo de Angelis *
Fabrizio De André Fabrizio Cristiano De André (; 18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter, the most prominent ''cantautore'' of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political pr ...
* Eugenio De Signoribus


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Muzi Epifani Maria Luisa Gabriella Epifani, better known as Muzi Epifani (March 18, 1935 – February 12, 1984), was an Italian writer and poet. Biography Muzi Epifani was born in Benghazi, Libya. She studied literature and philosophy at the Heidelberg U ...


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Franco Fortini Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes (10 September 1917 – 28 November 1994), an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual. Life Franco Fortini was born in Florence, the son of a Jewish ...
* Ugo Foscolo


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Alfonso Gatto Alfonso Gatto (17 July 1909 – 8 March 1976) was an Italian writer. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century and a major exponent of hermetic poetry. Biography Gatto stu ...
* Giuseppe Giusti * Corrado Govoni *
Guido Gozzano Guido Gustavo Gozzano (19 December 1883 – 9 August 1916) was an Italian poet and writer. Biography He was born in Turin, the son of Fausto Gozzano, an engineer, and of Diodata Mautino, the daughter of Senator Mautino, patriot and supporter of ...
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Lionello Grifo Lionello Grifo (born August 1934, in Rome), Italian poet and writer. Life and career Grifo's parents were both Italian government officials. He started his working life in the world of politics and the press. He holds a PhD in Political and So ...
* Giovanni Battista Guarini * Amalia Guglielminetti *
Margherita Guidacci Margherita Guidacci (April 25, 1921 – June 19, 1992), was an Italian poet born in Florence, Italy. She graduated from the University of Florence in 1943 and traveled to England and Ireland in 1947. Guidacci married the sociologist Lucca Pinna ...
* Guido Guinizzelli


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* Gianni Ianuale


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* Giacomo da Lentini *
Jacopo da Leona Jacopo da Leona, also spelt Iacopo was an Italian medieval jurist and poet who died in 1277. A notary by profession, he became a nobleman's secretary and later a judge. Sixty of his sonnets survive. Life and work Beginning life as Jacopo de ...
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Giacomo Leopardi Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (, ; 29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is considered the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and one of ...
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Mario Luzi Mario Luzi (20 October 1914 – 28 February 2005) was an Italian poet. Biography Born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino, Luzi's parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini, hailed from Samprugnano (later Semproniano). He spent his youth in Cast ...
* Menotti Lerro * Franco Loi


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* Giampiero Neri


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Lorenzo il Magnifico Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, banker, ''de facto'' ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo ...
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Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...
) * Valerio Magrelli * Alessandro Manzoni * Filippo Tommaso Marinetti *
Giambattista Marino Giovanni Battista was a common Italian given name (see Battista for those with the surname) in the 16th-18th centuries. It refers to " John the Baptist" in English, the French equivalent is "Jean-Baptiste". Common nicknames include Giambattista, G ...
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Alda Merini Alda Merini (21 March 1931, in Milan – 1 November 2009, in Milan) was an Italian writer and poet. Her work earned the attention and the admiration of other Italian writers, such as Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Pier Paolo Pasolin ...
* Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi) * Grazyna Miller * Eugenio Montale ( Nobel Prize in literature, 1975) * Vincenzo Monti *
Marino Moretti Marino Moretti (born Cesenatico, Italy; July 18, 1885 – July 6, 1979) was an Italian poet and author. Moretti's mother instilled in him a love of literature. After a failed attempt at an acting career, he began writing poetry; his first work ...
* Maurizio Moro


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Elio Pagliarani Elio Pagliarani (25 May 1927 – 8 March 2012) was an Italian poet and literary critic, who belonged to the avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement. He was born in Viserba, near Rimini. Pagliarani graduated in Politics Science at Padua, and in the 194 ...
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Aldo Palazzeschi Aldo Palazzeschi (; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974) was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist. Biography He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family. Following his father's direction ...
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Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini (23 May 1729 – 15 August 1799) was an Italian enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period. Biography Parini (originally spelled Parino) was born in Bosisio (later renamed Bosisio Parini in his honour) in Brian ...
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Giovanni Pascoli Giovanni Placido Agostino Pascoli (; 31 December 1855 – 6 April 1912) was an Italian poet, classical scholar and an emblematic figure of Italian literature in the late nineteenth century. Alongside Gabriele D'Annunzio, he was one of the gre ...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
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Nicoletta Pasquale Nicoletta Pasquale, known also as Coletta Pasquale or Paschale (Latin: ''Nicoletta Paschalis'') () was an Italian poet. Biography Nicoletta Pasquale was a noblewoman of Messina, a poet and intellectual. Little is known about her education and priv ...
* Cesare Pavese * Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) * Assunta Pieralli *
Poliziano Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known by his nickname Poliziano (; anglicized as Politian; Latin: '' Politianus''), was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scho ...
(Angelo Ambrogini) * Lorenzo Da Ponte *
Antonio Porta (author) Antonio Porta (the pen-name of Leo Paolazzi) was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63. Biography Antonio Porta was born Leo Paolazzi in Vicenza in 1935. In 1958, he became an editor of the litera ...
* Carlo Porta * Antonia Pozzi *
Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...
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Luigi Pulci Luigi Pulci (; 15 August 1432 – 11 November 1484) was an Italian diplomat and poet best known for his ''Morgante'', an epic and parodistic poem about a giant who is converted to Christianity by Orlando and follows the knight in many adventur ...
(1432–84)


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* Salvatore Quasimodo


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Giovanni Raboni Giovanni Raboni (22 January 1932 – 16 September 2004) was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic. Biography Raboni was born in Milan, the second son of Giuseppe, a clerk at Milan commune, and Matilde Sommariva. In October 1942, after ...
* Clemente Rebora *
Amelia Rosselli Amelia Rosselli (28 March 1930 – 11 February 1996) was an Italian poet. She was the daughter of Marion Catherine Cave, an English political activist, and Carlo Rosselli, who was a hero of the Italian anti-Fascist Resistance—founder, with ...
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Gabriele Rossetti Gabriele Pasquale Giuseppe Rossetti (28 February 1783 – 24 April 1854) was an Italian nobleman, poet, constitutionalist, scholar, and founder of the secret society Carbonari. Rossetti was born in Vasto in the Kingdom of Naples. He was Rom ...
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Tiziano Rossi Tiziano Rossi (born in Milan, 1935) is an Italian poet. He is well known for his published books of poetry, but in 2020 he also published a collection of short tales. Biography Son of the painter Giovanni Rossi, as a poet he is considered an impor ...


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Umberto Saba Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 26 August 1957) was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the pen name ...
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Giulio Salvadori Giulio Salvadori (; 14 September 1862 in Monte San Savino, Tuscany – 7 October 1928 in Rome, Lazio) was an Italian poet, literary critic and educator. Life Salvadori was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he became a friend o ...
* Edoardo Sanguineti *
Leonardo Sinisgalli Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908–1981) was an Italian poet and art critic active from the 1930s to the 1970s. Sinisgalli was born in Montemurro, Basilicata. His early education and careers led to him being called the "engineer poet". In 1925, Sinisg ...
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Maria Luisa Spaziani Maria Luisa Spaziani (21 June 1923 – 30 June 2014) was an Italian poet. Biography Spaziani was born in Turin. At nineteen, she founded the review ''Il dado'', working with collaborators such as Vasco Pratolini, Sandro Penna and Vince ...


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* Rosa Taddei * Torquato Tasso *
Laura Terracina Laura Terracina (1519-c. 1577) was an Italian poet from Naples during the Renaissance. She was the most published Italian poet of the sixteenth century. Life Terracina was born in Chiaia, a suburb of Naples. Her mother, Diana Anfora of Sorrento ...
* Giovanni Testori * Jacopone da Todi *
Trilussa Trilussa, anagrammatic pseudonym of Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano SalustriSome biographers as Claudio Rendina report ''Marianum'' as his fourth name (Rendina, p.19) (Rome, 26 October 1871 – 21 December 1950), was an Italian poet, writer and jo ...
(Carlo Alberto Salustri) ( Roman dialect) * Theodor Daubler


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Giuseppe Ungaretti Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experim ...


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Diego Valeri (poet) Diego Valeri (January 25, 1887, Piove di Sacco - November 28, 1976) was an Italian poet and literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is ...
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Emilio Villa Emilio Villa (Milan, 21 September 1914 – Rieti, 14 January 2003) was an Italian poet, visual artist, translator, art critic and Bible scholar.p. ii, Siracusa, Dominic Edward. 2014. ''Emilio Villa: Poet of Biblical Proportions: A Dissertation and ...


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Andrea Zanzotto Andrea Zanzotto (10 October 1921 – 18 October 2011) was an Italian poet. Biography Andrea Zanzotto was born in Pieve di Soligo (province of Treviso, Veneto), Italy to Giovanni and Carmela Bernardi. His father, Giovanni (born 18 Novembe ...


See also

* List of Italian writers


References

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