Writers from Calabria

Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet (1568-1639)

Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), was a Roman statesman, scholar, and writer who served in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Senator was part of his surname, not his rank. In his later years, he devoted himself to Christian learning and founded the Vivarium monastery, where he worked extensively during the final decades of his life.

5th-century BC Greek physician and philosopher

upright=1.25|thumb|A scene from the Tabula Iliaca, bearing the inscription "Sack of Troy according to Stesichorus" Stesichorus (; , Stēsichoros; c. 630 – 555 BC) was a Greek lyric poet native of Metauros (Gioia Tauro today). He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres, and for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing verses first insulting and then flattering to Helen of Troy.

Ibycus (; ; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets. He was mainly remembered in antiquity for pederastic verses, but he also composed lyrical narratives on mythological themes in the manner of Stesichorus. His work survives today only as quotations by ancient scholars or recorded on fragments of papyrus recovered from archaeological sites in Egypt, yet his extant verses include what are considered

thumb|right|Marble bust of Nossis by Francesco Jerace

Italian theologian

Italian writer of Arbëresh descent (1814–1903)

4th century BC Athenian comic poet

Greek humanist

4th-century BC Greek physician and author

Italian criminal lawyer and tv personality

Greek literary critic

Italian writer and jurist (1664-1718)

Catholic cardinal (1836–1906)

Italian poet

Italian writer (born 1954)

Italian artist and poet (1918-2006)

Italian botanist and neurobiologist

Italian statesman (1410-1480)

Italian writer

Italian lawyer, journalist, politician, poet, and writer (1843–1924)

Italian composer and writer (1855-1921)

Italian writer and poet (1924-2017)

Italian film director and television writer

Italian writer

Italian politician (1918-1966)

Italian politician (1892–1935)

Italian politician and author

Albanian writer (1819-1894)

Italian actor and writer

Italian journalist and television presenter

Italian writer (1823-1885)

Italian actor