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  Carlo Levi

  Carlo Levi was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.
  He is best known for his book, "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli" (Christ Stopped at Eboli), published in 1945; a memoir of his time spent in exile in Lucania, Italy, after being arrested in connection with his political activism. In 1979, the book became the basis of a movie of the same name, directed by Francesco Rosi. Lucania, now called Basilicata, is historically one of the poorest and most backward regions of the impoverished Italian south. Levi's lucid, non-ideological and sympathetic description of the daily hardships experienced by the local peasants helped to propel the "Problem of the South" into national discourse after the end of the World War II.

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  James L. Gelvin

  James L. Gelvin is an American scholar of Middle Eastern history. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 1995 and has written extensively on the history of the modern Middle East, with particular emphasis on nationalism and the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East.

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  Nikolai Leskov

  also:
  Николай Лесков
  Nikolaj S. Leskow
  Nikolai Leskov
  Nikolai Lesskow
  Nikolaj Semënovič Leskov
  Nikolaĭ Semenovich Leskov
  Nikolai Ljeskow
  Н. С. Лѣсков-Стебницкий
  Микола Лєсков
  
  Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Николай Семёнович Лесков; 16 February 1831 — 5 March 1895) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and journalist who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, and held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is credited with creating a comprehensive picture of contemporary Russian society using mostly short literary forms. His major works include Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865) (which was later made into an o

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  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.

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  Robin Marantz Henig

  I'm a long-time science journalist and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. In addition to my most recent book -- Twentysomething: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?, co-authored with my daughter Samantha Henig -- I've written eight others, including Pandora’s Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution and The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (and also, I'm tickled to report, a finalist for the Goodchild Prize for Excellent English from the Queen's English Society). My articles about health and medicine have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Civilization, Discover, Scientific American, Newsweek, Slate, and

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  Emilio Salgari

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  Arabic: أميليو سالغاري
  
  Father of Italian Popular Culture, Grandfather of the Spaghetti Western, Father of Heroes are but three of the titles bestowed upon Italian adventure writer Emilio Salgari. He wrote more than two hundred short stories and novels, many of which are considered classics. Setting his tales in exotic locations, with heroes from a wide variety of cultures, Mr. Salgari brought the wonders of the world to the doorstep of generations of readers.

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  Ugo Foscolo

  Foscolo was born on the Ionian island of Zakynthos. His father was Andrea Foscolo, an impoverished Venetian nobleman, and his mother Diamantina Spathis was Greek.
  In 1788, on the death of his father, who worked as a physician in Spalato, today Croatia (Split), the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school.
  
  Amongst his Paduan teachers was the abbé Cesarotti, whose version of Ossian had made that work highly popular in Italy, and who influenced Foscolo's literary tastes; he knew both modern and Ancient Greek. His literary ambition revealed itself by the appearance in 1797 of his tragedy Tieste--a production which obtained a certain degree of success.
  
  Foscolo, who,

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  David Howarth

  David Armine Howarth (1912 - 1991) was a British historian and author. After graduating from Cambridge University, he was a radio war correspondent for BBC at the start of the Second World War, joining the Navy after the fall of France. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander and spent four yeas in the Shetland Islands, becoming second in command of the Shetland Naval base. He was involved in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), including the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway, which utilized fishing boats with crews of Norwegian volunteers to land agents and arms in occupied Norway. For his contributions to espionage operations against the German occupation of

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  Luigi Pirandello

  Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
  
  He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"
  
  Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.

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  Richard Henry Dana Jr.

  Dana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 1, 1815, into a family that first settled in colonial America in 1640. As a boy, Dana studied in Cambridgeport under a strict schoolmaster named Samuel Barrett, alongside fellow Cambridge native and future writer James Russell Lowell. Barrett was infamous as a disciplinarian, punishing his students for any infraction by flogging. He also often pulled students by their ears and, on one such occasion, nearly pulled Dana's ear off, causing his father to protest enough that the practice was abolished.
  
  In 1825, Dana enrolled in a private school overseen by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who Dana later mildly praised as "a very pleasant instructor", though he lacked a "system or discipline enough to insure

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  Eugenio Montale

  Eugenio Montale was born on October 12, 1896 in Genoa, Italy. He was the youngest son of Domenico Montale and Giuseppina (Ricci) Montale. They were brought up in a business atmosphere, as their father was a trader in chemicals. Ill health cut short his formal education and he was therefore a self-taught man free from conditioning except that of his own will and person. He spent his summers at the family villa in a village. This small village was near the Ligurian Riviera, an area which has had a profound influence on his poetry and other works. Originally Montale aspired to be an opera singer and trained under the famous baritone Ernesto Sivori. Surprisingly he changed his profession and went on to become a poet who can be considered the gr

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  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Susan Fenimore Cooper was an American writer, best known for her nature diary Rural Hours. She was the daughter of James Fenimore Cooper.

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  Giacomo Leopardi

  Italian scholar, poet, essayist and philosopher, one of the great writers of the 19th century.
  Leopardi's love problems inspired some of his saddest lyrics. Despite having lived in a small town, Leopardi was in touch with the main ideas of the Enlightenment movement. His literary evolution turned him into one of the well known Romantic poets.
  In his late years, when he lived in an ambiguous relationship with his friend Antonio Ranieri on the slopes of Vesuvius, Leopardi meditated upon the possibility of the total destruction of humankind.
  Leopardi was a contemporary of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, with whom he shared a similarly pessimistic view of life. The latter praised Leopardi's philosophical thoughts on The World as Will

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  David Stasavage

  David Stasavage is the Julius Silver Professor in NYU’s Department of Politics and an Affiliated Professor in NYU’s School of Law, as well as its Department of History. He uses both current and historical data to investigate long run trends in inequality and in the development of state institutions. Recently, together with Ken Scheve at Stanford, he published Taxing The Rich, a book that charts the evolution of progressive taxation in twenty countries over the last two centuries. Before that he published States of Credit and Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State, two books in which he explored the joint development of representative government and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern periods. David has

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  John Davies

  John Davies (1938-2015) was a Welsh historian and a television and radio broadcaster. After teaching Welsh history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he retired to Cardiff and appeared frequently as a presenter and contributor to history programmes on television and radio.
  
  In the mid-eighties, Davies was commissioned to write a concise history of Wales by Penguin Books to add to its Pelican series of the histories of nations. The decision by Penguin to commission the volume in Welsh was "unexpected and highly commendable," wrote Davies. "I seized the opportunity to write of Wales and the Welsh. When I had finished, I had a typescript which was almost three times larger than the original commission," wrote Davies. The original voluminou

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  Alexandre Dumas

  This note regards Alexandre Dumas, père, the father of Alexandre Dumas, fils (son). For the son, see Alexandre Dumas fils.
  
  Alexandre Dumas père, born Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, was a towering figure of 19th-century French literature whose historical novels and adventure tales earned global renown. Best known for The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and other swashbuckling epics, Dumas crafted stories filled with daring heroes, dramatic twists, and vivid historical backdrops. His works, often serialized and immensely popular with the public, helped shape the modern adventure genre and remain enduring staples of world literature.
  Dumas was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a celebrated general in Revolutionary France a

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  Izaak Walton

  Izaak Walton (c. 1594[1] – 15 December 1683) was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies that have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.
  
  Walton was born at Stafford c. 1594; the traditional '9 August 1593' date is based on a misinterpretation of his will, which he began on 9 August 1683.[1] The register of his baptism gives his father's name as Gervase. His father, who was an innkeeper as well as a landlord of a tavern, died before Izaak was three. His mother then married another innkeeper by the name of Bourne, who would later run the Swan in Stafford.
  
  He settled in London where he began trading as an ironmonger in a small shop in the upper storey of Thomas G

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  George Ostrogorsky

  Ostrogorsky was born the son of a secondary school principal and a writer on pedagogical subjects.
  
  He completed his secondary education in a St. Petersburg classical gymnasium and thus acquired knowledge of Greek early in life. He began his university studies in Heidelberg, Germany (1921), where he devoted himself initially to philosophy, economics, and sociology, though he also took classes in classical archeology. His teachers included Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Rickert, Alfred Weber and Ludwig Curtius. His interest in history, especially Byzantine history, was awakened by a young Dozent by the name of Percy Ernst Schramm. After studying various aspects of Byzantinology in Paris (1924–1925), Ostrogorsky received his doctorate from the Univers

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  Primo Levi

  Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 1919, he studied chemistry at the University of Turin and graduated in 1941. During World War II, Levi joined the Italian resistance, but was captured by Fascist forces in 1943. Because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where he endured ten harrowing months before being liberated by the Red army.
  
  After the war, Levi returned to Turin and resumed work as a chemist, but also began writing about his experiences. His first book, If This Is a Man (published in the U.S. as Survival in Auschwitz), is widely regar

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  Carlo Michelstaedter

  Carlo Michelstaedter (3 June 1887 - 17 October 1910) was an Italian writer, philosopher, and man of letters.
  
  Carlo Michelstaedter was born in Gorizia, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian County of Gorizia and Gradisca, as the youngest of four children in a well-to-do Italian-speaking Jewish family. From his father Alberto, the head of an insurance office and president of the Gabinetto di Lettura goriziano, he received a push towards literary study; from his mother Emma Luzzatto, a great love for family and country.
  
  He was a scrappy and introverted boy, but by the end of high school (completed in Gorizia), he developed into a brilliant, athletic, intelligent youth. He enrolled in the department of mathematics in Vienna, but soon moved to Flore

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  Vamba

  Pseudonimo di Luigi Bertelli.

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  Antonio Scurati

  Docente e ricercatore all'Università Statale di Bergamo, coordina il Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza. Sempre presso l'Università Statale di Bergamo insegna Teorie e tecniche del linguaggio televisivo. Nel 2005 Scurati diviene Ricercatore in Cinema, Fotografia, Televisione. Nel 2008 si trasferisce alla Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM di Milano, dove svolge l'attività di ricercatore e docente titolare nell'ambito del Laboratorio di Scrittura Creativa e del Laboratorio di Oralità e Retorica.

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  Edmondo de Amicis

  Edmondo de Amicis was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.

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  Ugo Foscolo

  Foscolo was born on the Ionian island of Zakynthos. His father was Andrea Foscolo, an impoverished Venetian nobleman, and his mother Diamantina Spathis was Greek.
  In 1788, on the death of his father, who worked as a physician in Spalato, today Croatia (Split), the family removed to Venice, and at the University of Padua Foscolo completed the studies begun at the Dalmatian grammar school.
  
  Amongst his Paduan teachers was the abbé Cesarotti, whose version of Ossian had made that work highly popular in Italy, and who influenced Foscolo's literary tastes; he knew both modern and Ancient Greek. His literary ambition revealed itself by the appearance in 1797 of his tragedy Tieste--a production which obtained a certain degree of success.
  
  Foscolo, who,

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  Elsa Morante

  Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
  She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others.

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  Giorgio Bassani

  Giorgio Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico L. Ariosto in Ferrara. Music had been his first great passion and he considered a career as a pianist; however literature soon became the focus of his artistic interests.
  In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the “free intellectual” was the Liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were

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  Giovanni Verga

  Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia.
  
  The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
  
  Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guar

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  Italo Calvino

  Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
  
  His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl

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  Mary Mapes Dodge

  Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in New York City. She acquired a good education under private tutors. In 1851 she married the lawyer William Dodge. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in 1858. A month after his disappearance his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow.
  In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. Dodg

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  Cesare Pavese

  Cesare Pavese was born in a small town in which his father, an official, owned property. He attended school and later, university, in Turin. Denied an outlet for his creative powers by Fascist control of literature, Pavese translated many 20th-century American writers in the 1930s and '40s: Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner; a 19th-century writer who influenced him profoundly, Herman Melville (one of his first translations was of Moby Dick); and the Irish novelist James Joyce. He also published criticism, posthumously collected in La letteratura americana e altri saggi (1951; American Literature, Essays and Opinions, 1970).
  A founder and, until his death, an editor of t

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  Maria Beatrice Alonzi

  Maria Beatrice Alonzi è scrittrice, esperta di comunicazione e nuovi media, specializzata nella gestione della reputazione, cultura ed etica degli spazi digitali. Oltre la laurea in Scienze Umanistiche – dell’Università Statale di Milano – ha un master in Tecniche e Metodi di Analisi Comportamentale e Analisi Scientifica del Comportamento non-verbale; è speaker di TEDx, relatrice per l’Università Sapienza di Roma e divulgatrice scientifica con focus sulla salute mentale. Dal 2019 ha scritto quattro saggi e un romanzo, tutti best-seller, tradotti in più di 15 Paesi. È inoltre editorialista televisiva e, sceneggiatrice.
  
  Sta lavorando al suo prossimo libro, in uscita in primavera 2026 per Mondadori, e sta curando per Colorado l’adattamento aud

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  Giovanni Verga

  Giovanni Verga was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia.
  
  The first son of Giovanni Battista Catalano Verga and Caterina Di Mauro, Verga was born into a prosperous family of Catania in Sicily. He began writing in his teens, producing the largely unpublished historical novel Amore e Patria (Love and Country); then, although nominally studying law at the University of Catania, he used money his father had given him to publish his I Carbonari della Montagna (The Carbonari of the Mountain) in 1861 and 1862. This was followed by Sulle Lagune (In the Lagoons) in 1863.
  
  Meanwhile, Verga had been serving in the Catania National Guar

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  Beppe Severgnini

  Giuseppe "Beppe" Severgnini (born December 26, 1956) is an Italian journalist, writer and columnist.
  
  

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  Italo Svevo

  Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
  
  A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.

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  Vittorio Alfieri

  Works, including 19 tragedies, of Italian playwright Conte Vittorio Alfieri influenced nationalism.
  
  People consider this dramatist and poet as the founder.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittori...
  

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  William Bradford

  William Bradford was an English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected thirty times to be the Governor after John Carver died. The manuscript of his journal (1620–1647), Of Plymouth Plantation, was not published until 1856. Bradford is credited as the first to proclaim what popular American culture now views as the first Thanksgiving.

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  Charles Robert Maturin

  Charles Robert Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels.
  
  His first three works were published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy and were critical and commercial failures. They did, however, catch the attention of Sir Walter Scott, who recommended Maturin's work to Lord Byron. With the help of these two literary luminaries, the curate's play, Bertram (first staged on 9 May 1816 at the Drury Lane for 22 nights) with Edmund Kean starring in the lead role as Bertram, saw a wider audience and became a success. Financial success, however, eluded Maturin, as the play's run coincided with his father's unemployment and another relative's bankruptcy, both of them assis

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  Leon Battista Alberti

  Influential treatises on painting, architecture, and sculpture of Italian writer Leon Battista Alberti introduced classical ideas into Renaissance art.
  
  This author, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer, and general humanist polymath, often characterized exclusively, as James Beck observed, "to single out one of Leon Battista's 'fields' over others as somehow functionally independent and self-sufficient is of no help at all to any effort to characterize Alberti's extensive explorations in the fine arts." Giorgio Vasari described life of Alberti in Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori or "Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects."
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Ba...
  

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  Henri Troyat

  Troyat was a French author, biographer, historian and novelist.
  
  Troyat was born Levon Aslan Torossian in Moscow to parents of Armenian descent. His family fled Russia in anticipation of the revolution. After a long exodus taking them to the Caucasus on to Crimea and later by sea to Constantinople and then Venice, the family finally settled in Paris in 1920, where young Troyat was schooled and later earned a law degree. The stirring and tragic events of this flight across half of Europe are vividly recounted by Troyat in 'Tant que la terre durera'.
  
  Troyat received his first literary award, Le prix du roman populaire, at the age of twenty-four, and by twenty-seven, he was awarded the Prix Goncourt.
  
  Troyat published more than 100 books, novels an

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  Paolo Alessandrini

  Paolo Alessandrini, nato a Verona nel 1971, si è laureato in Ingegneria Informatica presso l’Università di Padova discutendo una tesi sperimentale su un algoritmo euristico, che ha vinto nel 1999 il premio nazionale Camerini-Carraresi. Con l’Università di Padova ha collaborato a progetti di ricerca di matematica computazionale, e nel 2010 è stato correlatore di una tesi di laurea specialistica in Ingegneria Gestionale.
  
  È docente di ruolo di matematica presso il Liceo Scientifico e Istituto Tecnico “Max Planck” di Villorba (TV).
  Ha tenuto numerosi corsi e interventi di formazione, anche per enti accreditati MIUR, tra cui Unione Matematica Italiana, Tokalon, Redooc, Ambito 9 della Regione Lombardia, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, Istituto C

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  George Hodges

  George Hodges (1856–1919) was an American Episcopal theologian, born at Rome, N. Y., and educated at Hamilton College (A.B., 1877; A.M., 1882; LL.D., 1912). He served at Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1881 to 1894.[1] In 1893 he helped establish the Kingsley Association in Pittsburgh, an organization dedicated to helping immigrant workers.[2] Afterward, he became the dean of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The high esteem in which his religious messages are held by the reading public"[3] resulted in a number his books being reissued as a second edition in 1914.

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  Claudio Magris

  Claudio Magris was born in Trieste in the year 1939. He graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978.
  
  His most well known book is Danubio (1986), which is a magnum opus. In this book Magris tracks the course of the Danube from its sources to the sea. The whole trip evolves into a colorful, rich canvas of the multicultural European history.
  
  He's translated the works of Ibsen, Kleist and Schnitzler, among others, and he also published essays about Robert Musil, Jorge Luis Borges, Hermann Hesse and many others.

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  Umberto Saba

  Umberto Saba was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the nom de plume "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928.

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  Gianni Celati

  Gianni Celati (Sondrio, 1937) è stato uno scrittore, traduttore, anglista, critico letterario e documentarista italiano.
  
  Nasce a Sondrio, dove si trova la famiglia a causa del lavoro del padre, usciere di banca spostato spesso di sede in sede a causa dei litigi con i suoi superiori. Il padre Antonio era originario di Bondeno, vicino a Ferrara, mentre la madre, Exenia Dolores Martelli, era nata a Sandolo, vicino al delta del Po. Celati passa l'infanzia e l'adolescenza in provincia di Ferrara.
  Laureatosi in letteratura inglese presso l'Università di Bologna scrive articoli per Marcatré, Lingua e stile, Il Verri, Il Caffè, Quindici, Sigma, ecc. oltre a pubblicare le prime traduzioni. Assume la cattedra di letteratura angloamericana del DAMS di B

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  Charles William Eliot

  Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.

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  Gian Biagio Conte

  Gian Biagio Conte is an Italian classicist and professor of Latin Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.

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  Marco Antonio Bazzocchi

  Nel 1980 si iscrive presso la facoltà di Lettere classiche dell'Università di Bologna, dove nel 1985, sotto la guida di Ezio Raimondi, si laurea in Letteratura italiana con una tesi sulle forme narrative del romanzo dannunziano. Guidato sempre da Raimondi e da Fausto Curi, Bazzocchi consegue nel 1989 il dottorato di ricerca sulla presenza del mito nella poesia di Giovanni Pascoli. Dal lavoro di dottorato vede la luce, nel 1993, la sua prima monografia, Circe e il fanciullino. Interpretazioni pascoliane (La Nuova Italia). Nel frattempo, inizia a occuparsi di Giacomo Leopardi cui dedica un lungo commento alle Operette morali, la cura del volume miscellaneo Leopardi e Bologna (Olschki, 1999) e un commento, scritto insieme a Riccardo Bonavita,

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  Jean Froissart

  Jean Froissart was one of the most important of the chroniclers of medieval France. For centuries, Froissart's Chronicles have been recognized as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of the 14th century Kingdom of England and France. His history is also one of the most important sources for the first half of the Hundred Years' War.

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  Fosco Maraini

  (Source: wikipedia)
  Nacque il 15 novembre 1912 dallo scultore Antonio Maraini (1886-1963), di antica famiglia ticinese, e dalla scrittrice Yoï Crosse (1877-1944), di padre inglese e madre ungherese di origine polacca.
  
  Bilingue italo-inglese fin dalla nascita, crebbe e si formò nell'ambiente intellettualmente vivace proprio del suo nucleo familiare e della Firenze degli anni 1920 - 1930. Nel 1934, spinto dalla sua immensa curiosità nei confronti dell'Oriente, si imbarcò sulla nave Amerigo Vespucci come insegnante di inglese, visitando l'Africa del Nord e l'Anatolia. Nel 1935 sposò la pittrice siciliana Topazia (n. 1913), dell'antica famiglia Alliata di Salaparuta, principi di Villafranca, da cui ebbe le tre figlie Dacia (Fiesole, 1936), Yuki (

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  Antonio Fogazzaro

  Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a rich family.
  
  In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin. In Milan he followed the scapigliatura movement.
  
  In 1869 he was back in Vicenza to work as lawyer, but he left this path very soon to write books full time.
  
  In his works one finds a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. Arguably his masterpiece was Piccolo Mondo Antico (variously titled in English translations as The Patriot or as Little World of the Past). This well written novel is set in his beloved Valsolda on Lake Lugano, Italy, in the 1850s. It has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inne

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  Luigi Pulci

  Luigi Pulci, (born August 15, 1432, Florence [Italy]—died November? 1484, Padua, Republic of Venice), Italian poet whose name is chiefly associated with one of the outstanding epics of the Renaissance, Morgante, in which French chivalric material is infused with a comic spirit born of the streets of Florence. The use of the ottava rima stanza for the poem helped establish this form as a vehicle for works of a mock-heroic, burlesque character.
  
  For many years Pulci lived under the protection of the Medici family, especially Lorenzo the Magnificent, who first introduced him into the circle of poets and artists that was gathering around him and later, after assuming power, entrusted him with various embassies and diplomatic missions. Nevertheles

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  Alberto Savinio

  Alberto Savinio, nome d'arte di Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico (Atene, 25 agosto 1891 – Roma, 5 maggio 1952), è stato uno scrittore, pittore e compositore italiano.
  Nato in Grecia, terzo figlio dell'ingegnere ferroviario Evaristo de Chirico e Gemma Cervetto, fratello del pittore Giorgio de Chirico e di Adele, primogenita, morta nel 1891, studiò pianoforte e composizione al conservatorio della sua città natale, dove si diplomò a pieni voti nel 1903.

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  Sandro Penna

  Sandro Penna (June 12, 1906 – January 21, 1977) was an Italian poet.
  
  Born in Perugia, Penna lived in Rome for most of his life. He never had a regular job, contributing to several newspapers and writing almost only poetry. His first poems were published in 1932, through the intervention of Umberto Saba. Openly gay, his works were largely marked by his melanchonic view of homosexuality as emargination. Penna's economic conditions were often poor, and in his late years a group of intellectuals signed a manifesto in the newspaper 'Paese Sera' to help him.
  
  His affection for young boys was reflected by the constant presence of young boys in his verses, as well as in his taking a 14-year-old streetboy from Rome, Raffaele, to the home he shared with

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  Federico Faggin

  Italian physicist, inventor and entrepreneur, widely known for designing the first commercial microprocessor. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel's microprocessor effort. Most importantly, Faggin created in 1968, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor, the self-aligned MOS silicon gate technology (SGT) that made possible dynamic memories, non-volatile memories, CCD image sensors, and the microprocessor. In addition, he further developed at Intel his original SGT into a new methodology for random logic chip design that was essential to the creation of the world's first single chip microprocessor and all other early Intel microprocessors. He was co-founder (with Ralph Ungermann) and CEO

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  Marcel Detienne

  Marcel Detienne was a Belgian historian and specialist in the study of Ancient Greece.

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  Phyllis Curott

  Phyllis Curott is one of America’s first public Wiccan Priestesses, an attorney, and an author whose groundbreaking books, published in fourteen countries, have made Wicca accessible to the world and awakened an entire generation to the Goddess. She is founder of the Temple of Ara, the world’s oldest shamanic Wiccan congregation, and was the Vice Chair Emerita of the 2015 Parliament of the World’s Religions, and creator of the historic Inaugural Assembly and drafter of the Declaration for the Dignity and Human Rights of Women adopted by the 2015 Parliament. Named one of the Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year by Jane Magazine and called one of "America's leading voices" by Time Magazine, Curott was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Colle

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  Edgar Morin

  Edgar Morin (born Edgar Nahoum) is a French philosopher and sociologist who has been internationally recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought," and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology, ecology, education, and systems biology. He holds degrees in history, economics, and law. Though less well known in the United States due to the limited availability of English translations of his over 60 books, Morin is renowned in the French-speaking world, Europe, and Latin America.
  
  At the beginning of the 20th century, Morin's family migrated from the Greek town of Salonica to Marseille and later to Paris, where Edgar was born. He first became tied to socialism

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  Etienne van Heerden

  Etienne Roché van Heerden grew up in a dual medium household. After matriculating he decided to join the navy, but since he is blind in the right eye, was not called up for combat duty. Instead he served as a dog handler, playing his alsatian at major festivals.
  
  Van Heerden initially studied law, and was admitted to the South African Side Bar as attorney. He freelanced as deputy sheriff for the Civil Court, and moved about in the townships around Cape Town, dispensing civil summonses and learning a great deal about life in these suppressed communities. As a young practitioner, his clients were mostly from the black and coloured crime-ridden communities around Cape Town.
  
  Van Heerden also lectured Legal Practice at the Peninsula Technikon and s

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  Mala Spina

  Sognatrice di avventure e imbrattatrice di tele digitali.
  Amo la letteratura fantasy e d’azione, il progetto Altro Evo è il mio modo per far venire fuori tutte le storie che mi ronzano in testa. Sono appassionata di grafica e illustrazione digitale.

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  Ernest Renan

  Joseph Ernest Renan was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations (philology), philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate.

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  Chiara Cecilia Santamaria

  Author and bookworm.

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  Giorgio Amitrano

  He's a translator from Japanese to Italian and an expert of Japanese literature.

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  Giuseppe Sergi

  Giuseppe Sergi (March 20, 1841 – October 17, 1936) was an Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, best known for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of Mediterranean peoples. He rejected existing racial typologies that identified Mediterranean peoples as "dark whites" because they implied a Nordicist conception of Mediterranean peoples descending from whites who had become racially mixed with non-whites which he claimed was false. His concept of the Mediterranean race, identified Mediterranean peoples as being an autonomous brown race and he claimed that the Nordic race was descended from the Mediterranean race whose skin had depigmented to a pale complexion after it moved north. This concept becam

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  Zhang Jie

  Zhang Jie (simplified Chinese: 张洁; traditional Chinese: 張潔; pinyin: Zhāng Jié; Wade–Giles: Chang Chieh, born 1937) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer. She is one of China's first contributors to feminist fiction.
  
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  Salvatore Satta

  Salvatore Satta, scrittore e giurista, nasce a Nuoro il 9 agosto 1902, ultimo figlio di Satta Salvatore, notaio di Nuoro, e di Galfrè Valentina.
  Consegue il diploma di licenza liceale presso il Liceo "Azuni" di Sassari nel 1920 e si laurea in Giurisprudenza col massimo dei voti e la lode nell'Ateneo della stessa città nel 1924, discutendo la tesi sul Sistema revocativo fallimentare.
  Una malattia lo costringe ad interrompere il tirocinio di avvocato presso il noto giurista milanese Marco Tullio Zanzucchi e a ricoverarsi per circa due anni nel sanatorio di Merano, dove scrive La veranda, un romanzo sulla propria e altrui sofferenza.
  Nel 1932 consegue la libera docenza all'Università di Camerino dove riceve l'incarico per l'insegnamento di Diritt

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  Danila Comastri Montanari

  Danila Comastri Montanari was an Italian historical mystery fiction writer. She wrote the Publius Aurelius Statius series.

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  Walter Bagehot

  British journalist Walter Bagehot edited The Economist and wrote The English Constitution (1867), an analysis of the comparative powers of the branches of government.
  
  Walter Bagehot, a businessman and essayist, extensively covered literature and affairs.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...
  

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  Maria Bellonci

  Maria Villavecchia Bellonci was an Italian writer and translator especially known for her biography of Lucrezia Borgia. She and Guido Alberti set up the Premio Strega in 1947.
  
  Maria Bellonci nasce a Roma nel 1902. Suo padre, Girolamo Vittorio Villavecchia, insegna chimica all’università ed è autore di un celebre trattato di merceologia. Da lui Maria dirà di aver appreso il rigore della ricerca scientifica. Frequenta l’Istituto del Sacro Cuore a Trinità dei Monti e il liceo Umberto I. Di questi anni, già intellettualmente vivaci, ricorderà «il senso di vita traboccante […] per il quale mi pareva d’essere chiusa in una mandorla d’immortalità».
  
  Luisa Avellini, 'Bellonci, Maria', Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (2012).

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  Egidio Ivetic

  Egidio Ivetic is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Padua.

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