Judith R.

Dela Cruz
BSN III
Famous Italian Writers

Durante degli Alighieri (1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine
Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later
christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work
composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.It has
been referred to as the greatest poem of the Middle Ages.

Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374), commonly anglicised as Petrarch was an Italian
scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy, who was one of the earliest humanists.
His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century
Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism.

Lorenzo de' Medici (1 January 1449 – 8 April 149) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the
Florentine Republic, who was the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of the
Renaissance.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an Italian Renaissance polymath
whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture,
science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology,
astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously
called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely
considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the
inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank,he epitomised the Renaissance
humanist ideal.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician,
historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period. He has
often been called the father of modern political science.He was for many years a
senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and
military affairs. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal
correspondence is renowned in the Italian language. He was secretary to the
Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the
Medici were out of power. He wrote his most renowned work The Prince (Il
Principe) in 1513.

Francesco Guicciardini (6 March 1483 – 22 May 1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend
and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political
writers of the Italian Renaissance. In his masterpiece, The History of Italy,
Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of
government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the
people and events of his time.

Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. (20 May 1470 – 18 January,[2] 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, literary
theorist, member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal. He was an influential
figure in the development of the Italian language, specifically Tuscan, as a
literary medium, codifying the language for standard modern usage. His writings
assisted in the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch. Bembo's
 ideas were also decisive in the formation of the most important secular musical
form of the 16th century, the madrigal.

Bernardino Telesio (7 November 1509 – 2 October 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural
scientist. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on
observation made him the "first of the moderns" who eventually developed the
scientific method.

Lucilio Vanini (1585 – 9 February 1619), who, in his works, styled himself Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar)
Vanini, was an Italian philosopher, physician and free-thinker, who was one of
the first significant representatives of intellectual libertinism. He was among the
first modern thinkers who viewed the universe as an entity governed by natural
laws (nomological determinism). He was also the first literate proponent of the
thesis that humans evolved from apes.

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564[3] – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central
figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the
transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution.

Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1669– 11 November 1750) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and
man of letters.

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (3 January
1698 – 12 April 1782), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most
important writer of opera seria libretti.

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist
from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and
best-loved plays.

Count Vittorio Alfieri (16 January 1749 – 8 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered
the "founder of Italian tragedy."

Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and
scholar.

Ugo Foscolo (6 February 1778– 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer,
revolutionary and poet.He is remembered especially for his 1807 poetry book,
Dei Sepolcri.

Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was
an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist. He is widely seen as one of
the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century

Giuseppe Giusti (12 May 1809 – 31 May 1850) was an Italian poet and satirist.

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi (12 August 1804 – 25 September 1873) was an Italian writer and
politician involved in the Italian risorgimento.

Vincenzo Gioberti (5 April 1801 – 26 October 1852) was an Italian philosopher, publicist and politician.
Cesare Balbo, Conte di Vinadio (21 November 1789 – 3 June 1853), was an Italian writer and
statesman.

Aron Ettore Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo
Svevo (Italian: [ˈiːtalo ˈzvɛːvo]), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist,
playwright, and short story writer.

Luigi Pirandello (known as Agrigento, 28 June 1867 –10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist,
novelist, poet and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power
to turn psychological analysis into good theatre."Pirandello's works include
novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written
in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre
of the Absurd.

Alberto Moravia (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian
novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social
alienation and existentialism.

Umberto Eco OMRI (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic,
philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is best known
internationally for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a
historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval
studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di
Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the
Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in
2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.