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Born June 25, 1789 • Saluzzo • Italy
Died January 31, 1854 (aged 64) • Turin • Italy
Notable Works “Francesca da Rimini” • “Il Conciliatore”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
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Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
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Alexandre Dumas.
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Polish poet and dramatist
Luigi Pirandello
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Goldoni, oil painting by Alessandro Longhi; in the Casa di Goldoni (Museo Teatrale e Istituto di Studi Teatrali), Venice
Carlo Goldoni
Italian dramatist
Pietro Aretino
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Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Alfieri
Vittorio, Count Alfieri
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Curzio Malaparte
Italian writer
Giambattista Giraldi
Italian poet and dramatist
Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei
Italian dramatist
Ennio Flaiano
Italian author and critic
Federico Della Valle
Italian poet and dramatist
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
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Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
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Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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