1. Torquato Tasso (1544)

Italian Poet

Sixteenth-century Italian poet who is most remembered for a 1580 work entitled La Gerusalemme Liberata.

2. Giambattista Marino (1569)

Italian Poet

Italian poet known for his lavish wordplay and for his 1623 epic poem "L'Adone." His other notable works include La Lira and Le Rime.

3. Goffredo Mameli (1827)

Italian Poet

Italian poet, author, and patriot best known for writing the lyrics to the Italian National Anthem. He died at the age of twenty one as the result of a leg...

4. Giosuè Carducci (1835)

Italian Poet

Renowned Italian poet and 1906 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous works include the poem "Inno a Satana" ("Hymn to Satan") and the poetry collections Odi...

5. Alda Merini (1931)

Italian Poet

Award-winning Italian poet whose work explored the intersection of insanity and creativity. She is particularly remembered for L'altra verita: Diario di una diversa, a 1986 poetic memoir.

6. Amelia Rosselli (1930)

Italian Poet

Amelia Rosselli was an Italian poet. She was the daughter of Marion Cave an English political activist and Carlo Rosselli who was a hero of the Italian anti-Fascist Resistance—founder with...

7. Kuki Gallmann (1943)

Italian Poet

Kuki Gallmann is an Italian-born Kenyan national best-selling author poet environmental activist and conservationist.

8. Milo de Angelis (1951)

Italian Poet

Milo De Angelis is an Italian language poet. He is the author of several books of poetry as well as a volume of stories and one of essays. He has...

9. Salvatore Toma (1951)

Italian Poet

Salvatore Toma was an Italian poet born in the Southern Italian region of Puglia. A visionary and passionate poet he delved deeply into the meaning of love and death while...

10. Leonello Rabatti (1960)

Italian Poet

Leonello Rabatti is an Italian poet and critic. He lives in Prato and has privately published two volumes of poetry. He received a degree in Modern Literature from the University...

11. Valerio Magrelli (1957)

Italian Poet

Valerio Magrelli is an Italian poet. He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome and is an expert in French literature which he has taught and teaches at University...

12. Nanni Balestrini (1935)

Italian Poet

Nanni Balestrini is an Italian experimental poet author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement.

13. Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni (1663)

Italian Poet

Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni was an Italian critic and poet. Crescimbeni was born in Macerata which was then part of the Papal States.

14. Melchiorre Murenu (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Melchiorre Murenu was a blind Sardinian poet and writer. Melchiorre Murenu is known as the Homer or the Marghine because he was blind and lived his entire life for poetry....

15. Giovanni Marradi (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Giovanni Marradi was an Italian poet born at Livorno and educated at Pisa and Florence. At the latter place he started with others a short-lived review the Nuovi Goliardi which...

16. Cesare Rinaldi (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Cesare Rinaldi was one of Bologna's most eminent poets. His verse was set to music as madrigals by Salamone Rossi and the circle of the Gonzaga Court at Mantua. He...

17. Carlo Imbonati (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Carlo Imbonati was an Italian nobleman and highbrow. He is known above all for the several poems which were dedicated to him by the famous literates Giuseppe Parini and particularly...

18. Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni (1692)

Italian Poet

Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni was an Italian poet and librettist. As a poet Frugoni was one of the best of the school of the Arcadian Academy and his lyrics and pastorals...

19. Bernardo Bellincioni (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Bernardo Bellincioni was an Italian poet who began his career in the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent in Florence. In 1483 he was at the Gonzaga court and in 1485...

20. Bernardo Bilotta (1843)

Italian Poet

Bernardo Bilotta was an Italian priest poet and folklorist of Arbëreshë descent.

21. Biagio Marin (1891)

Italian Poet

I wanted to be the voice of my island nothing elseThe sea was for me the word of otherness the most pure and most immediate incarnation of DivinityBiagio Marin was...

22. Amalia Guglielminetti (1881)

Italian Poet

Amalia Guglielminetti was an Italian poet and writer.

23. Clemente Bondi (1742)

Italian Poet

Clemente Luigi Donnino Bondi was an Italian poet and translator.

24. Alberto Caramella (1928)

Italian Poet

Alberto Caramella spent all his life in Florence. He was an Italian poet. His first poetical works were published in 1995 after a successful career as a lawyer. In 1997...

25. Karmel Kandreva (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Karmel Kandreva was an Arberesh writer. He was born in Cerzeto in Calabria Italy. Among his published works is a study Didactic test in a bilingual Arberesh environment about the...

26. Giuseppe Brunelli (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Giuseppe Antonio Brunelli is a contemporary Italian poet essayist and translator residing in Florence Italy where he concluded his tenure at the University of Florence teaching French Language and Literature...

27. Piero Jahier (1884)

Italian Poet

Piero Jahier was an Italian poet translator and journalist.

28. Vincenzo da Filicaja (1642)

Italian Poet

Vincenzo da Filicaja was an Italian poet.

29. Joseph Almanzi (1801)

Italian Poet

Joseph Almanzi was an Italian Jewish bibliophile and poet. The eldest son of Baruch Hayyim Almanzi a wealthy merchant; he received a good education by private tutors one of whom...

30. Giulio Cesare Cortese (1570)

Italian Poet

Giulio Cesare Cortese was an Italian author and poet.

31. Andrea Zanzotto (1921)

Italian Poet

Andrea Zanzotto was an Italian poet.

32. Carlo Maria Maggi (1630)

Italian Poet

Carlo Maria Maggi was an Italian scholar writer and poet. Despite being an Accademia della Crusca affiliate he gained his fame as an author of dialectal works in Milanese language...

33. Vittoria Aganoor (1855)

Italian Poet

Vittoria Aganoor was an Italian poet with Armenian ancestry. She was born in Padova the seventh child of Edoardo Aganoor and Giuseppina Pacini. Edoardo Aganoor's family was of wealthy Armenian...

34. Giovanni Andrea dell' Anguillara (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Giovanni Andrea dell'Anguillara was an Italian poet. He was born in Sutri in Tuscany. He worked as a proof-reader. He translated Ovid's Metamorphoses in ottava rima and wrote a tragedy...

35. Clemente Rebora (1885)

Italian Poet

Clemente Rebora was a poet from Milan Italy. From 1913 to 1922 he wrote anonymous Songs and lyrics. Previously an atheist he had a spiritual crisis in 1928 and became...

36. Leonardo Sinisgalli (1908)

Italian Poet

Leonardo Sinisgalli was an Italian poet and art critic active from the 1930s to the 1970s. Sinisgalli was born in Montemurro Basilicata. His early education and careers led to him...

37. Sandro Penna (1906)

Italian Poet

Sandro Penna was an Italian poet.

38. Giovanni Berchet (1783)

Italian Poet

Giovanni Berchet was an Italian poet and patriot. He wrote an influential manifesto on Italian Romanticism Lettera semiseria di Grisostomo which appeared in 1816 and contributed to Il Conciliatore a...

39. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876)

Italian Poet

Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor the founder of the Futurist movement.

40. Francesco Gaeta (1879)

Italian Poet

sco Gaeta was an Italian poet. His early works were initially influenced by Gabriele D'Annunzio and were characterized by a sentimental and sensual mood. His language featured both refined and...

41. Corrado Paina (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Corrado Paina is an Italian poet. Born in Milan Italy since 1987 Paina has been living in Toronto Canada where he serves as editorial director of the quarterly magazine ItalyCanada...

42. Alessandro Poerio (1802)

Italian Poet

Alessandro Poerio Italian poet and patriot.

43. Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (1479)

Italian Poet

Giglio Gregorio Giraldi was an Italian scholar and poet. He was born at Ferrara where he early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements. On the completion of his...

44. Giovanni Prati (1814)

Italian Poet

Giovanni Prati was an Italian poet born in what then was part of the Austrian Empire and educated in law at Padua.

45. Lodovico Lazzarelli (1447)

Italian Poet

Ludovico Lazzarelli was an Italian poet philosopher courtier and alleged magician and diviner of the early Renaissance. Born at San Severino Marche he had contact with many important thinkers of...

46. Nicola Chetta (Unknow)

Italian Poet

Nicola Chetta was an Arbëresh writer and priest. He was born in Contessa Entellina. He was educated at the Greek Orthodox seminary in Palermo. In 1777 Keta himself became rector...

47. Bernardo Tasso (1493)

Italian Poet

Bernardo Tasso born in Venezia was an Italian courtier and poet. He was for many years secretary in the service of the prince of Salerno and his wife Porzia de...

48. Giulio Salvadori (1862)

Italian Poet

Giulio Salvadori was an Italian poet literary critic and educator.

49. Girolamo Benivieni (1453)

Italian Poet

Girolamo Benivieni was a Florentine poet who was an intimate of several great men of the Renaissance.

50. Benedetto Menzini (1646)

Italian Poet

Benedetto Menzini was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet. In his satires he assails in acrid terms the hypocrisy prevailing in Tuscany in the last years of the Medici...