List of
poets
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
who wrote in
Italian (or Italian dialects).
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Antonio Abati
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Luigi Alamanni
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Aleardo Aleardi
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...
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Cecco Angiolieri
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Gabriele D'Annunzio
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Ludovico Ariosto
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Francis of Assisi
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italians, Italian Mysticism, mystic, poet and Friar, Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Chris ...
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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 fo ...
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Dario Bellezza
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Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (
Roman dialect)
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Attilio Bertolucci
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Carlo Betocchi
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Alberta Bigagli
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio ( , ; ; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian people, Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so ...
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Maria Alinda Bonacci Brunamonti
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Carlo Bordini
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Franco Buffoni
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Helle Busacca
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Ignazio Buttitta (
Sicilian language)
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Paolo Buzzi
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Dino Campana
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Giorgio Caproni
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Giosuè Carducci
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Guido Cavalcanti
Guido Cavalcanti (between 1250 and 1259 – August 1300) was an Italians, Italian poet. He was also a friend of and intellectual influence on Dante Alighieri.
Historical background
Cavalcanti was born in Florence at a time when the comune was b ...
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Roberto Carifi
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Gabriello Chiabrera
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Compagnetto da Prato
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Cielo d'Alcamo
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Antonio De Santis (Italian and
Larinese dialect)
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Milo de Angelis
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Fabrizio De André
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Eugenio De Signoribus
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Muzi Epifani
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Caterina Franceschi Ferrucci
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Alba Florio
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Franco Fortini
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Ugo Foscolo
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Erminia Fuà Fusinato
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Alfonso Gatto
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Giuseppe Giusti
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Corrado Govoni
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Guido Gozzano
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Lionello Grifo
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Giovanni Battista Guarini
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Amalia Guglielminetti
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Margherita Guidacci
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Guido Guinizzelli
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Gianni Ianuale
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Giacomo da Lentini
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Jacopo da Leona
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Giacomo Leopardi
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Mario Luzi
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Franco Loi
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Giampiero Neri
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Lorenzo il Magnifico (sovereign of
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
Florence ...
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Valerio Magrelli
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Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher.
He is famous for the novel ''The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), The Betrothed'' (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among ...
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Giambattista Marino
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Domenico Antonio Mele
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Alda Merini
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Metastasio (Pietro Trapassi)
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Grazyna Miller
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Eugenio Montale (
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1975)
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Vincenzo Monti
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Marino Moretti
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Maurizio Moro
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Elio Pagliarani
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Aldo Palazzeschi
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Giuseppe Parini
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Giovanni Pascoli
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist ...
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Nicoletta Pasquale
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Cesare Pavese
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Giovanni Peruzzini
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Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)
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Assunta Pieralli
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Poliziano (Angelo Ambrogini)
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
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Antonio Porta (author)
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Carlo Porta
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Antonia Pozzi
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an List of poets from the United States, American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Ita ...
(Italian, English, and others)
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Luigi Pulci (1432–84)
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Salvatore Quasimodo
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Giovanni Raboni
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Clemente Rebora
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Amelia Rosselli
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Gabriele Rossetti
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Tiziano Rossi
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Umberto Saba
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Giulio Salvadori
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Edoardo Sanguineti
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Leonardo Sinisgalli
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Maria Luisa Spaziani
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Rosa Taddei
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Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...
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Laura Terracina
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Giovanni Testori
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Jacopone da Todi
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Trilussa (Carlo Alberto Salustri) (
Roman dialect)
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Theodor Daubler
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Giuseppe Ungaretti
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Diego Valeri (poet)
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Emilio Villa
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Andrea Zanzotto
See also
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List of Italian writers
References
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Italian poets
Poets
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...