Giovanni Comisso was an important Italian writer of the twentieth century, appreciated by Eugenio Montale, Umberto Saba, Gianfranco Contini and many others.
Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist. This is a description by himself: "My real name is Giovanni Luigi Brera. I was born on 8 September 1919 in San Zenone Po in the province of Pavia, and grew up like a wild man among woods, river banks and still waters. [...] I am a Padan from the banks and flood plains, the bush and the sandbanks. I soon realized I was a legitimate son of the Po".
Dario Bellezza was an Italian poet, author and playwright. He won the Viareggio, Gatto, and Montale prizes.
Nicla Vassallo, is an Italian analytic philosopher with research and teaching interests in epistemology, philosophy of knowledge, theoretical philosophy, as well as gender studies and feminist epistemology. She is currently (when?) a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Genoa, a Research Associate of National Research Council, and on List of alumni of King's College London. She also is a poet and lives in Rome.
Raffaele La Capria was an Italian novelist and screenwriter.
Roberto Carifi, is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator, supported since the beginning from Piero Bigongiari, one of the major exponents of Florentine Hermeticism. Considered one of the most important poet and intellectual of his generation he has been influenced by having a very difficult illness to cope with.
Eva Cantarella is an Italian classicist. She is professor of Roman law and ancient Greek law at the University of Milan, and has served as Dean of the Law School at the University of Camerino.
Alma Franca Maria Norsa, known professionally as Franca Valeri, was an Italian actress, playwright, screenwriter, author, and theatre director.
Arrigo Petacco was an Italian writer, historian and journalist.
Igor Sibaldi, born from Russian mother and Italian father, is an Italian writer, scholar of theology and history of religion.
Laudomia Bonanni was an Italian writer and journalist. Although she started publishing when she was a teenager, her literary career took off in 1948 when she won a national contest; she went on to be a prolific and award-winning author. The Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale compared her realism to James Joyce’s Dubliners, and other distinguished critics considered her one of the most important and original voices in Italy’s post-World War II literature.
Alfonso Signorini is an Italian television host and journalist.
Massimo Carlotto is an Italian writer and playwright.
Piero Ciampi was an Italian singer-songwriter.
Giordano Bruno Guerri is an Italian historian, writer, and journalist. He is an important scholar of twentieth-century Italy, in particular of the Fascist period and the relationship between Italians and the Catholic Church.
Giorgio Scerbanenco was an Italian crime writer.
Guia Risari is an Italian writer, educator and translator.
Maria Idolina Landolfi was an Italian novelist, poet and literary critic. She was daughter of the writer Tommaso Landolfi and the principal curator of his works.
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli is an Italian writer and journalist.
Luciana Percovich is an Italian non-fiction writer, a teacher, a translator and director of a series of books on women’s history and spirituality. She was born in Gorizia, Italy in a Mitteleuropean Italian speaking family forced to leave Fiume, Rijeka at the end of World War II, with cultural and geographical roots in Austria and Dalmatia, she spent her childhood and adolescence in Gorizia attending Classical studies. At the age of 18, she went to Milan to complete her education, and there she graduated in 1972. She has been defined as "a traveller between worlds and a weaver of space-time connections for her ability of embracing distant wide horizons with a loving insight".
Whatever I've done, it's been conceived within women's relations, in presence of women's bodies and in the flowing of awakened women's emotions.
