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Born	March 4, 1916 • Bologna • Italy
Died	April 13, 2000 (aged 84) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works	“Five Stories of Ferrara” • “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”

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Massimo Bontempelli

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Luigi Pirandello

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Alessandro Manzoni

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Eugenio Montale

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Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence

Ugo Foscolo

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Italo Calvino

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Salvatore Quasimodo

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Riccardo Bacchelli

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Elio Vittorini

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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Peretz Markish

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Leonardo Sciascia

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Marino Moretti

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Vittorio Sereni

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Corrado Alvaro

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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