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Pages in category "16th-century Italian poets" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, poets, and other people whose primary artistic output was literature. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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List of poets who wrote in Italian (or Italian dialects). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Dante was more aware than most early Italian writers of the variety of Italian dialects and of the need to create a literature and a unified literary language beyond the limits of Latin writing at the time; in that sense, he is a forerunner of the Renaissance, with its effort to create vernacular literature in competition with earlier classical ...
Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) [2] (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625) [3] was a Neapolitan poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic L'Adone . The Cambridge History of Italian Literature thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all
13th-century Italian poets (2 C, 26 P) R. 13th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians (17 P) Pages in category "13th-century Italian writers"
Portrait of Torquato Tasso, 1590s. Torquato Tasso (/ ˈ t æ s oʊ / TASS-oh, also US: / ˈ t ɑː s oʊ / TAH-soh, Italian: [torˈkwaːto ˈtasso]; 11 March 1544 – 25 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end ...