Giovanni Battista Casti

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Born	August 29, 1724 • Italy
Died	February 5, 1803 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Novelle galanti” • “Poema tartaro” • “The Court and Parliament of Beasts”

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

Giuseppe Parini

Italian author

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Italian writer

Leonardo Sciascia

Italian author

Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli

Italian poet

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Giuseppe Giusti

Italian author

Paolo Antonio Rolli

Italian author

Alessandro Tassoni

Italian author

Gasparo, Count Gozzi

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John Dryden

British author

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Gertrude Stein

American writer

Randolph Stow

Australian writer

Peter Cornelius

German composer and author

Johan Henrik Kellgren

Swedish poet

Avrom Goldfaden

Jewish author

Nahum Tate

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Swedish poet

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