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List Of Italian Writers
This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature. A * Crescenzo Alatri (1825–1897) * Attilio Albergoni (born 1949) * Sibilla Aleramo (1876–1960) * Vittorio Alfieri (1749–1803) * Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) * Magdi Allam (born 1951) * Ernesto Aloia (born 1965) * Corrado Alvaro (1895–1956) * Pasquale Amati (1726–1792) * Niccolò Ammaniti (born 1966) * Elisa S. Amore (born 1984) * Andrea da Grosseto (13th century) * Cecco Angiolieri (13th century) * Giulio Angioni (1939–2017) * Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) * Giovanni Arpino (1927–1987) * Antonia Arslan (born 1938) * Devorà Ascarelli (16th century) B * Emma Baeri (born 1942) * Andrea Bajani(born 1975) * Alfredo Balducci (1920–2011) * Barbara Baraldi * Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1493) * Ermolao Barbaro the Elder, Ermolao Barbaro (bishop) (1410–1474) * Francesco Barbaro (politician), Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) * Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crescenzo Alatri
Crescenzo Alatri (1825 – 12 February 1897) was an Italian-Jewish writer most well-known for his publication of "History of the Jews in Rome." Biography Born in Rome, Alatri was educated in the Talmud Torah of his native city, the ''Universita' Israelitica di Roma'', and graduated as a rabbi. Later in his life following graduation, he was appointed secretary counselor and remained involved as an educator along with his relative Samuel Alatri, Samuel. He was the author of "History of the Jews in Rome," several extracts of which were published in the ''L'Educatore Israelita, Educatore Israelita'' (1856). He is widely recognized for his Italian language, Italian and French language, French translator of Israel Moses Hazan's Hebrew poems, and as one of the founders of the Società di Fratellanza, a Jewish philanthropic organization dedicated to youth education and the promotion of artisanship among Italian Jewry. Alatri was active in the Italian-Jewish community and was a support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devorà Ascarelli
Devorà Ascarelli was a 16th-century Italian poet living in Rome, Italy. Ascarelli was likely the first Jewish woman to have a book of her own work published. Biography Little is known about Devorà Ascarelli, and some of what is known is contradictory. The dedication of her book, ''L’abitacolo Degli Oranti'', indicates that she lived in Rome in the 16th century and was married to Joseph Ascarelli. Thought to be born into the Italian merchant class, Ascarelli was well-educated and was able to devote time to translation and other writings. No maiden name is mentioned in relation to Ascarelli. Some have suggested that she and her husband may have been cousins and thus shared the same family name. Connections can be drawn between the Ascarelli family and Catalan leaders in Rome. ''L’abitacolo Degli Oranti'' Ascarelli's book ''L’abitacolo Degli Oranti'' was published in Venice in 1601. It contains translations of liturgical texts from Hebrew into Italian alongside poetry in It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Bembo
Pietro Bembo, (; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theory, literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance (Quattrocento, 15th–Cinquecento, 16th c.), Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became the modern Italian language. In the 16th century, Bembo's poetry, essays and books proved basic to reviving interest in the literary works of Petrarch. In the field of music, Bembo's literary writing techniques helped composers develop the techniques of musical composition that made the madrigal (music), madrigal the most important secular music of 16th-century Italy. Life Pietro Bembo was born on 20 May 1470 to an aristocratic Venetian Bembo (family), family. His father Bernardo Bembo (1433–1519) was a dip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio (; 15 March 1738 – 28 November 1794) was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, economist, and politician who is widely considered one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. He is well remembered for his treatise ''On Crimes and Punishments'' (1764), which condemned torture and the death penalty, and was a founding work in the field of penology and the classical school of criminology. Beccaria is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice. According to John Bessler, Beccaria's works had a profound influence on the Founding Fathers of the United States. Birth and education Beccaria was born in Milan on 15 March 1738 to the Marchese Gian Beccaria Bonesana, an aristocrat of moderate standing from the Austrian Habsburg Empire. Beccaria received his early education in the Jesuit college at Parma. Subsequently, he graduated in law from the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (Bologna, 4 March 1916 – Rome, 13 April 2000) was an Italians, Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico ''L. Ariosto'' in Ferrara. The high school's historical archive contains many documents and photos concerning his young life, which are displayed in the atrium that they dedicated to him. Music had been his first great passion and he considered a career as a pianist; however, literature soon became the focus of his artistic interests. In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train (third class) from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the "free intellectual" was the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco (; born 25 January 1958) is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a number of languages. Early life, family and education Baricco was born in Turin, Italy. He has earned degrees in philosophy (under Gianni Vattimo) and in piano. Career Baricco published essays on music criticism: ''Il genio in fuga'' (1988) on Gioachino Rossini, and ''L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin'' ("Hegel's Soul and the Cows of Wisconsin", 1992) on the relation between music and modernity. He subsequently worked as music critic for ''La Repubblica'' and ''La Stampa'', and hosted talk shows on Rai Tre. Baricco debuted as a novelist with ''Castelli di rabbia'' (translated as ''Lands of Glass'') in 1991. In 1993, he co-founded a creative writing school in Turin, naming it Scuola Holden after J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield. The Scuola Holden hosts a variety of courses on narrative techniques including screenwriting, journalism, nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Barbaro
Marco Barbaro (1511 – 1570) was a member of the Venetian noble Barbaro family, and the author of ''Genealogie Patrizie'' and other works in Venetian.''Studies in the Renaissance'', Renaissance Society of America, 1974, University of Texas Press, pg.200 References 1511 births 1570 deaths Republic of Venice nobility Italian genealogists Marco Marco may refer to: People Given name * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor Surname * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Jindřich Marco (1921–2000), Czechoslovak photographer and numismat ... 16th-century Venetian historians 16th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giosafat Barbaro
Giosafat Barbaro (also spelled ''Giosaphat'' or ''Josaphat''; 1413–1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer.''A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3'' Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 137 He was unusually well-travelled for someone of his times.''Una famiglia veneziana nella storia: i Barbaro'' Michela Marangoni, Manlio Pastore Stocchi, Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Barbaro (politician)
Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) was an Italian politician, diplomat, and humanist from Venice and a member of the patrician Barbaro family. He is interred in the Church of the ''Frari'', Venice. Family and education Francesco Barbaro was the son of Candiano Barbaro, uncle of Ermolao Barbaro, grandfather of the younger Ermolao Barbaro, and great-great grandfather of Marcantonio Barbaro and Daniele Barbaro. Francesco's father died in 1391 and Francesco was raised by his older brother Zaccaria. In 1419, Franceso married Maria Loredan, daughter of Procurator Pietro Loredan. Francesco and Maria had five daughters and one son, Zaccaria, who was born in 1422. Francesco Barbaro was a student at the University of Padua and studied under John of Ravenna, Gasparino Barzizza, Vittorino da Feltre, Guarino Veronese, and Giovanni Conversini. Career In 1419, Barbaro was appointed senator of the Republic of Venice. He was elected governor of Como in 1421, though he declined the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ermolao Barbaro The Elder
Ermolao Barbaro (–1471) was an Italian prelate. He is sometimes referred to as "''the elder''" to distinguish him from his relative Ermolao Barbaro. History Ermolao Barbaro was born into the Venetian Barbaro family, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro and nephew to Francesco Barbaro. around the year 1410. As a child, he studied the Greek language with Guarino Veronese. When he was 12 years old he made a Latin translation of 33 of Aesop's Fables.“A new general biographical dictionary, Volume 3”, Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, 1857, pg. 13“Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne”, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28., pg. 33/ref> Barbaro studied at the University of Padua, where he graduated in 1425. Among his teachers was Guarino Guarini. Later he moved to Rome where he entered Papal service. In 1435, Pope Eugene IV named him apostolic prothonotary and in 1443 appointed Barbaro as Bishop of Treviso. In 1447, the Pope promised Barbaro the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ermolao Barbaro
Ermolao Barbaro, in Latin Hermolaus Barbarus (21 May 145414 June 1493), was a Venetian Renaissance humanist, diplomat and churchman. From 1491, he was the patriarch of Aquileia. He is often called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his cousin, Ermolao Barbaro the Elder. Education Ermolao Barbaro was born in Venice, the son of Zaccaria Barbaro, and the grandson of Francesco Barbaro. He was also the uncle of Daniele Barbaro and Marcantonio Barbaro Much of his early education was outside of Venice, accompanying his father who was an active politician and diplomat. He received further education in Verona with an uncle, also named Ermolao. In 1462 he was sent to Rome, where he studied under Pomponius Laetus and Theodorus Gaza. By 1468 he had returned to Verona, where Frederick III awarded him a laurel crown for his poetry. He completed his education at the University of Padua, where he was appointed professor of philosophy there in 1477. Two years later he revisited Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Baraldi
Barbara Baraldi is an Italian mystery and fantasy writer. Biography A native of Mirandola, she currently lives near Modena. Her debut novel is ''La ragazza dalle ali di serpente'', published in 2007, under the pseudonym of Luna Lanzoni. As a noir fiction's writer she received, for two consecutive years, the Marco Casacci Prizes with two short stories: "Dorothy non vuole morire" and "La sindrome felicità repulsiva". For her short novel ''Una storia da rubare'' she won the Premio Gran Giallo Città di Cattolica. At the end of 2007 she published the novel ''La collezionista di sogni infranti'' (PerdisaPop) in a book series by Luigi Bernardi. Two of her novels, ''La bambola dagli occhi di cristallo'' and ''Il giardino dei bambini perduti'', were published in 2008 by Mondadori on ''Il Giallo Mondadori Presenta''. In 2009 she published the novel ''La casa di Amelia'' (PerdisaPop), a sequel to her previous work for the book series by Luigi Bernardi. The novel ''La casa dagli specchi r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
