1.
Dante Alighieri
27 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
2.
Giovanni Boccaccio
After studying in Florence and Naples law and banking, Boccaccio finds his true vocation, poetry. His „Decameron“ is played even in the present in theatres all over the world.
20 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
3.
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni used to live in Venice, there he wrote many playwrites. Most of them are played and enjoyed now as they were at that time, because all his comedies have immortal humor.
9 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
4.
Italo Svevo
6 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
5.
Carlo Levi
Although Levi studied medicine and he practiced as a physician, his antifascist beliefs made him write, first as a journalists, than a long line of novels.
6 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
6.
Italo Calvino
5 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
7.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
5 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
8.
Luigi Pirandello
5 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
9.
Ludovico Ariosto
5 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
10.
Leonardo Sciascia
4 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
11.
Alberto Moravia
4 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
12.
Cesare Pavese
4 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
13.
Gabriele d'Annunzio
He inspired the following Italian writer generation. He was both loved and hated by the public. Loved, because of his poetry and novels, and hated because of the connection he had with the fascist movement.
3 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
14.
Dino Buzzati
3 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
15.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco is one of the most famous Italian writers. His most famous work is „The name of the Rose“. But he wrote in many more domains than fiction: academic text, mostly semiotics, children’s books, philosophy and anthropology.
2 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
16.
Giuseppe Pontiggia
2 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
17.
Antonio Tabucchi
1 point - added 13 years ago by irina -
18.
Giorgio Bassani
1 point - added 13 years ago by irina -
19.
Carlo Emilio Gadda
0 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
20.
Carlo Fruttero & Franco Lucentini
0 points - added 13 years ago by irina -
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