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Born March 14, 1856 • Pátrai • Greece
Died July 25, 1927 (aged 71) • Naples • Italy
Founder “Il Giorno”
Notable Works “The Land of Cockayne”
Movement / Style verismo
Plaatje, Solomon Tshekiso
Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje
South African writer
Giovanni Guareschi
Italian journalist and novelist
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
Italo Calvino
Italian author
Elio Vittorini
Italian author
Curzio Malaparte
Italian writer
Moravia, 1969
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer
Pietro Sandro Nenni.
Pietro Nenni
Italian journalist and politician
Bassani, 1987
Giorgio Bassani
Italian author
Vittorio Sereni
Italian poet, author, editor and translator
Alvaro, Corrado: Gente d'Aspromonte
Corrado Alvaro
Italian author
Pellico, detail of an oil painting by Luigi Norfini
Silvio Pellico
Italian author
Giovanni Comisso
Italian author
Giorgio Manganelli
Italian author
Ennio Flaiano
Italian author and critic
Verga
Giovanni Verga
Italian author
Luigi Capuana
Italian writer
Grazia Deledda
Italian author
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
John Wilkes, engraving from a manifesto commemorating his fight against general warrants and for the liberty of the press, 1768
John Wilkes
British journalist and politician