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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English artist

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

John Ciardi

American poet and critic

Elio Vittorini

Italian author

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

Kazantzákis, Níkos

Níkos Kazantzákis

Greek writer

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Lodovico Castelvetro

Italian critic

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet.

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet

American author

Monti, detail of an oil painting by A. Appiani; in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

Vincenzo Monti

Italian author

Vittorio Sereni

Italian poet, author, editor and translator

Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of

Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

English translator

Anna Banti

Italian author and critic

Paolo Antonio Rolli

Italian author

Samuel Putnam

American editor and author

Heyse, c. 1870

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse

German writer

William Painter

English author

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

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Music Book, music note, scale, sheet music

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Italian Words Commonly Used in English

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