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Born	May 20, 1470 • Venice • Italy
Died	January 18, 1547 (aged 76) • Rome • Italy
Notable Works	“Gli Asolani” • “Prose della volgar lingua”
Movement / Style	bembismo
Subjects Of Study	Italian language • grammar

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Vittorio Sereni

Italian poet, author, editor and translator

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

Vincenzo Monti

Italian author

Paolo Antonio Rolli

Italian author

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

Ippolito Pindemonte

Italian writer

S.E.K. Mqhayi

South African poet and novelist

Morris-Jones, oil painting by Christopher Williams, 1924; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Sir John Morris-Jones

Welsh author, scholar, and educator

Michelangelo

Italian artist

Dante

Italian poet

Petrarch

Italian poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Leo XIII

pope

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.

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

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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:

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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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