Italian poetry
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Italian poetry is a category of Italian literature. Italian poetry flourished primarily during Ancient Rome and Renaissance period.
[edit] Important Italian poets
- Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.
- Guido Cavalcanti (c.1255 - 1300) Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement.
- Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) wrote Divina Commedia, one of the pinnacles of Middle Ages literature.
- Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374) famous for developing the Petrarchan sonnet in a collection of 366 poems called Canzoniere.
- Ludovico Ariosto (1474 – 1533) wrote the epic poem Orlando furioso (1516).
- Torquato Tasso (1544 – 1595) wrote La Gerusalemme liberata (1580) in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade.
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837): his Canzoni are highly valued
- Giovanni Pascoli (1855 - 1912)
- Eugenio Montale (1896 – 1981) won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1975.
- Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)
- Cesare Pavese (1908 – 1950)
