Category
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Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
Carlo Collodi
Italian writer (1826–1890)

Francesco Guicciardini
Italian writer, historian and politician (1483-1540)
Giovanni Papini
Italian writer (1881-1956)
Luigi Pulci
Italian poet (1432-1484)
Brunetto Latini
Italian scholar and statesman, c. 1220–1294
Vasco Pratolini
Italian writer (1913-1991)
Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Italian writer, political advisor and wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici

Dietrich von Hildebrand
German Catholic philosopher and theologian (1889–1977)
Aldo Palazzeschi
Italian novelist, poet and essayist (1885-1974)
Luigi Alamanni
Italian poet
Filippo Baldinucci
Italian art historian (1625-1697)
Tiziano Terzani
Italian journalist and writer (1938-2004)

Peter Martyr Vermigli
Italian Reformed theologian
Ottavio Rinuccini
Italian poet (1562-1621)
Dino Compagni
Italian historian (1255-1324)
Roberto Calasso
Italian writer (1941–2021)
Franco Sacchetti
Italian writer (1332-1400)
Cristoforo Buondelmonti
15th-century Italian writer and geographer
Vincenzo da Filicaja
poet from Italy (1642-1707)
Pietro Citati
Italian writer and literary critic (1930-2022)
Agnolo Firenzuola
Italian poet and litterateur
Anna Banti
Italian novelist, art historian, art critic, and translator (1895–1985)
Giovanni de' Bardi
Italian composer and writer
Lorenza Mazzetti
Italian writer and film director (1927-2020)
Antonio Francesco Grazzini
Italian writer, poet and playwright of XVI century
Matteo Palmieri
Italian humanist (1406-1475)
Girolamo Mei
Italian historian
Riccoldo da Monte di Croce
Italian missionary
Benedetto Varchi
Italian humanist, historian and writer (1503-1565)
Giambattista Andreini
Italian actor
Filippo Villani
chronicler from Florence, Italy (fl. 1400)

Friedrich von Hügel
Austrian Roman Catholic layman theologian (1852–1925)
Emilio Cecchi
Italian film producer and art historian (1884-1966)
Francesco Vettori
Italian diplomat (1474-1540)
Vincenzo Borghini
Italian monk, historian, philologist and art collector (1515-1580)
Carla Lonzi
Italian writer (1931-1982)
Piero Vettori
Italian writer
Lodovico Guicciardini
Italian historian (1521-1589)
Donato Giannotti
Italian writer (1492-1574)

Ferdinando Ughelli
Italian abbot

Angelo Maria Bandini
Italian writer
Francesco da Barberino
Italian poet
Giovanni Battista Adriani
Italian historian
Ferdinando Martini
Italian writer and politician (1841-1928)

Franco Fortini
Italian writer, poet and literary critic (1917-1994)
Jacopo Alighieri
son of Dante Alighieri
Gino Capponi
Italian politician, historian and writer (1792-1876)
Giovanni Rosini
Italian writer and publisher
Raffaello Lambruschini
Italian politician and agronomist
Matteo Villani
Italian historian and writer
Giovanni Fiorentino
Italian writer
Giovanni Maria Cecchi
Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary
Cesare Paoli
Italian archivist, palaeographer, diplomatist and historian (1840-1902)
Domenico di Giovanni
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Burchiello (1404–1449) was the pen name of an Italian poet, born Domenico di Giovanni. He is notable for his paradoxical style and the apparently absurd usages of his sonnets, which founded a school of writing and were much imitated.
Bernardo Davanzati
Italian economist and agronomist (1529-1606)
Jacopo Nardi
Italian historian
Giovanni Ciampoli
Italian presbyter and poet (1589-1643)
Giovanni Gaetano Bottari
Italian scholar and critic