Juan Rodolfo Wilcock was an Argentine-Italian writer, poet, critic and translator. He was the son of Charles Leonard Wilcock and Ida Romegialli. He adopted a son, Livio Bacchi Wilcock, who translated Jorge Luis Borges' work into Italian.
Giorgio Caproni was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator, especially from French. His work was also part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Giovanni Raboni was an Italian poet, translator and literary critic.
Beppe Costa is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher.
Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
Antonia Pozzi was an Italian poet.
Fabio Barcellandi is an Italian poet and translator.
Giorgio Orelli was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator.
Maria Isabella Vincentini is an Italian poet, essayist and literary critic.
Maria Luisa Gabriella Epifani, better known as Muzi Epifani, was an Italian writer and poet.
Giovanni Giudici was an Italian poet and journalist.
Barbara Carle is a French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist. She is Professor Emerita of Italian at California State University Sacramento.
Helle Busacca was an Italian poet, painter, and writer.
Guido Ceronetti was an Italian poet, philosopher, novelist, translator, journalist and playwright.
Claudio Damiani is an Italian poet. He was born in San Giovanni Rotondo in the south of Italy (Puglia) in 1957 though at an early age, he moved to Rome where he still lives. He made his debut in 1978 in Nuovi Argomenti, the magazine directed by Pasolini, Moravia and Bertolucci. In the first half of the 1980s, he was among the founders of the magazine Braci, where a new classicism was proposed. Inspired by ancient Latin poets and by the Italian Renaissance, his themes are mainly nature and cosmos, with a side attention to current scientific research. "If the Horatian scenes of Sabina refer to a type of modern Arcadia, their specific quality is above all to approach a voice that is internal and literally poetic, refounded and reguarded like an unexpected and precious gift". His poems have been interpreted by such actors as Nanni Moretti and Piera Degli Esposti. Main prizes and awards: Premio Montale, Premio Luzi, Premio Lerici, Premio Volterra, Premio Laurentum, Premio Brancati, Premio Frascati, Premio Alpi Apuane, Premio Camaiore.
Mario Benedetti was an Italian poet. He was among the founders of the contemporary poetry magazines Scarto minimo and Arsenal littératures.
Omero Vecchi, known by his pen name Luciano Folgore, was an Italian poet.
Corrado Govoni. was an Italian poet. His work dealt with modern urban representations, the states of memory, nostalgia, and longing, using an expressive and evocative style of writing.
Enrico Testa is an Italian poet and professor in Italian Studies at the University of Genova.
Elio Pecora is an Italian poet and writer.
