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Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei
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Born June 1, 1675 • Verona • Italy
Died February 11, 1755 (aged 79) • Verona • Italy
Notable Works “A Compleat History of the Ancient Amphitheatres and in particular that of Verona” • “Merope”
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
Italian author
Pietro Aretino
Italian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Alfieri
Vittorio, Count Alfieri
Italian author
Giambattista Giraldi
Italian poet and dramatist
Pellico, detail of an oil painting by Luigi Norfini
Silvio Pellico
Italian author
Ennio Flaiano
Italian author and critic
Federico Della Valle
Italian poet and dramatist
Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso
Italian poet
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Silone, 1969
Ignazio Silone
Italian author
Goldoni, oil painting by Alessandro Longhi; in the Casa di Goldoni (Museo Teatrale e Istituto di Studi Teatrali), Venice
Carlo Goldoni
Italian dramatist
Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence
Ugo Foscolo
Italian writer
Curzio Malaparte
Italian writer
Dino Buzzati
Italian author
Dario Fo
Dario Fo
Italian author and actor