Andrea Zanzotto was an Italian poet.
Giovanni Florio, known as John Florio, was an English linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. He is recognised as the most important Renaissance humanist in England. Florio contributed 1,149 words to the English language, placing third after Chaucer and Shakespeare, in the linguistic analysis conducted by Stanford professor John Willinsky.
Benedetto Croce, OCI, COSML was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography, and aesthetics. A political liberal in most regards, he formulated a distinction between liberalism and "liberism". Croce had considerable influence on other Italian intellectuals, from Marxists to Italian fascists, such as Antonio Gramsci and Giovanni Gentile, respectively.
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.
Enrico Corradini was an Italian novelist, essayist, journalist and nationalist political figure.
I Malavoglia is the best known novel by Giovanni Verga. It was first printed in 1881.
Giuseppe Prezzolini was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer. He later became an American citizen.
Rodolfo Celletti (1917–2004) was an Italian musicologist, critic, voice teacher, and novelist. Considered one of the leading scholars of the operatic voice and the history of operatic performance, he published many books and articles on the subject as well as several novels.
Massimo Mattioli was an Italian artist and cartoonist. He was known for his humorous children's work and adult comic book series. He's also a person who designed Om Nom from the first-three seasons of Om Nom Stories.
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is a play originally written in Italian by Dario Fo in 1974. Regarded as Fo's best-known play internationally after Morte accidentale di un anarchico, it had been performed in 35 countries by 1990. Considered a Marxist political farce, it is a comedy about consumer backlash against high prices.
Galateo: The Rules of Polite Behavior by Florentine Giovanni della Casa (1503–56) was published in Venice in 1558. A guide to what one should do and avoid in ordinary social life, this courtesy book of the Renaissance explores subjects such as dress, table manners, and conversation. It became so popular that the title, which refers to the name of one of the author’s distinguished friends, entered into the Italian language as a general term for social etiquette.
Mundus alter et idem is a satirical dystopian novel written by Joseph Hall c. 1605. The title has been translated into English as An Old World and a New, The Discovery of a New World, and Another World and Yet the Same. Although the text credits "Mercurius Britannicus" as the author, Thomas Hyde ascribed it to Hall in 1674.
"La Lupa" is a short story by Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga, first published in 1880.
Leonardo was a philosophy magazine published in the early twentieth century in Florence, Italy, between 1903 and 1907. It was one of the publications started by Giovanni Papini and contributed by Giuseppe Prezzolini. The magazine is also one of the periodicals which contributed to the cultural basis of the early forms of Fascism.
Edipo Re is an opera generally attributed to Ruggero Leoncavallo, although there is some dispute about the authorship. The libretto is by Giovacchino Forzano. It had its premiere in Chicago in 1920.
Woman Like Me is a 1940 short story collection by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte.
The Volga Rises in Europe is a book of World War II journalism by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte.
The Story of Christ, published as Life of Christ in the United States, is a 1921 book by the Italian writer Giovanni Papini. It is Papini's retelling of the stories of the Biblical Gospels.
Il libro nero. Nuovo diario di Gog is a 1951 novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Papini. It is in the form of a diary with the views and adventures of the American millionaire Goggins, nicknamed Gog. It is the sequel to Papini's 1931 novel Gog. It was awarded the Premio Marzotto.
