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Born	c.1505 • Modena • Italy
Died	February 21, 1571 • Switzerland
Notable Works	“La poetica di Aristotele vulgarizzata”
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism • literature • poetry • unity • Aristotle

George Of Trebizond

Byzantine humanist

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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Jean Chapelain

French author

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

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Vincenzo Monti

Italian author

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve

English dramatist

Wole Soyinka

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

François Mauriac

French author

Martin Opitz

German poet

Eric Bentley

American critic, translator, and stage director

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Robert Fitzgerald

American poet

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Sir Edmund Gosse

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