Francesco de Sanctis was a leading Italian literary critic and scholar of Italian language and literature during the 19th century.
Emanuele Severino was an Italian philosopher.
Giovanni Comisso was an important Italian writer of the twentieth century, appreciated by Eugenio Montale, Umberto Saba, Gianfranco Contini and many others.
Gianni Baget Bozzo was an Italian Catholic priest and politician.
Ludovico Geymonat was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and historian of science. As a philosopher, he mainly dealt with philosophy of science, epistemology and Marxist philosophy, in which he gave an original turn to dialectical materialism.
Raffaele La Capria was an Italian novelist and screenwriter.
Alberto Oliverio is a biologist and psycho-biologist. He is currently professor of Psychobiology at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has been one of the main assistants of Nobel prize winner Daniel Bovet.
Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti was an Italian academic, literary critic and poet. He taught at the University of Turin from 1967 until his death in 2017. He was considered to be one of the most important literary critics of his time.
Luigi Bartolini was an Italian painter, writer, and poet. He is known for his novel, Bicycle Thieves, upon which the Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica and of the same title was based. He published over 70 books during his lifetime. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
Antonio Bueno was an Italian painter of Spanish origin, who acquired Italian citizenship in 1970. He was born in Berlin while his journalist father was posted there by the newspaper ABC of Madrid.
Marino Moretti was an Italian poet and author.
Romano Bilenchi was an Italian novelist, short story writer and essayist. He was born in Siena. He was involved with the resistance movement during the Fascist rule of Benito Mussolini. He was also active in the Italian Communist Party after the war. He founded a magazine, Società, together with Cesare Luporini and Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli in 1945.
Furio Jesi was an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist, and philosopher.
Massimo Carlotto is an Italian writer and playwright.
Nino Valeri was an Italian historian.
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.
Marco Belpoliti is an Italian writer, essayist and critic, who contributes regularly to La Repubblica and L'Espresso, and is currently a professor at the University of Bergamo. He is the author of many books and edited the Einaudi edition of the complete works of Primo Levi.
Orsola Nemi was an Italian writer and translator.
Carola Prosperi was an Italian writer, feminist and journalist.
