Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and writer. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics writer. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist.
Pietro Carrera was an Italian chess player, historian, priest and author.
Antoine Ó Raifteirí was an Irish language poet who is often called the last of the wandering bards.
Alessandro Tassoni was an Italian poet and writer, from Modena, best known as the author of the mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita.
Fabrizio Cristiano De André was an Italian singer-songwriter and the most-prominent cantautore of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political protest, and French music. He is considered a prominent member of the Genoese School. Because of the success of his music in Italy and its impact on the Italian collective memory, many public places such as roads, squares, and schools in Italy are named after De André.
"Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released as the opening track of his 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks (1975). The song was written by Dylan and produced by David Zimmerman, Dylan's brother. Released as a single, it reached No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song concerns relationships and contains different narrative perspectives. Dylan has altered the lyrics in subsequent performances, changing the point of view and details in the song.
Luigi Tenco was a popular Italian singer-songwriter.
Francesco De Gregori OMRI is an Italian singer-songwriter. In Italy, he is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori", a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics. Although often referred as singer-songwriter and poet, he prefers to be identified simply as "artist".
Americo Boschetti is a singer, composer and guitarist. Composer of over 500 songs, Boschetti has also transformed many poems into songs by adding music to the lyrics.
Norman Raeben was an American painter. He also taught painting.
Vinicio Capossela is an Italian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.
Antonio Porta was an Italian author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Massimiliano Chiamenti was an Italian poet and philologist who lived in Bologna, and taught at the "Liceo delle Scienze Sociali Laura Bassi and the "Liceo Scientifico Leonardo Da vinci"".
Luigi Augusto Fontanella is an Italian poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.
Parnassius Guccinii is the sixteenth album by Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini. The title references a butterfly subspecies named after the artist. It was released in 1993 by EMI and was generally well received.
Alessandro Cipriani is an Italian composer of electronic music.
Giulia Niccolai was an Italian photographer, poet, novelist, and translator.
Franco Buffoni (1948) is an Italian poet, translator and professor of literary criticism and comparative literature. He was born in Gallarate (Lombardy) and lives in Rome.
Barbara Carle is a French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist. She is Professor Emerita of Italian at California State University Sacramento.
"Bandiera bianca" is a 1981 song by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, the only single from his best-selling album La voce del padrone.
