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Also Known As	Umberto Poli
Born	March 9, 1883 • Trieste • Austria-Hungary
Died	August 25, 1957 (aged 74) • Gorizia • Italy
Notable Works	“Il canzoniere”

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Riccardo Bacchelli

Italian author

Giosuè Carducci

Italian poet

Mario Luzi

Italian poet and literary critic

Massimo Bontempelli

Italian poet

Giovanni Papini

Italian author

Alessandro Tassoni

Italian author

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

Vincenzo Cardarelli

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Gasparo, Count Gozzi

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Michelangelo

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Dante

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Petrarch

Italian poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Giordano Bruno

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Luigi Pirandello

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Leo XIII

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