Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto

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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

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Born	1707 • Padua • Italy
Died	May 6, 1747 (aged 40) • Israel
Subjects Of Study	Kabbala

Massimo Bontempelli

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Avrom Goldfaden

Jewish author

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

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

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer

Pietro Aretino

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Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Vittorio, Count Alfieri

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Carlo, Conte Gozzi

Italian author

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

Battista Guarini

Italian poet

Ugo Betti

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Giuseppe Parini

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Mario Luzi

Italian poet and literary critic

Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

Judah Leone ben Isaac Sommo

Italian writer

Farkas Bolyai

Hungarian mathematician and writer

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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:

Poetry: First Lines

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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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