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Key People

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

English artist

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Elio Vittorini

Italian author

John Ciardi

American poet and critic

Opitz, Martin

Martin Opitz

German poet

Kazantzákis, Níkos

Níkos Kazantzákis

Greek writer

Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Lodovico Castelvetro

Italian critic

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

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet.

Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet

American author

Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of

Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

English translator

Paolo Antonio Rolli

Italian author

Anna Banti

Italian author and critic

Samuel Putnam

American editor and author

William Painter

English author

Antonio Brucioli

Italian humanist

Giorgio Manganelli

Italian author

Quiz

Music Book, music note, scale, sheet music

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Italian Words Commonly Used in English

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