Curated category
Italian male poets
- Dante AlighieriIn the year 1300, a man named Dante Alighieri claimed to have walked through Hell. He wrote that he was midway upon the journey of his life when this vision…
- Antonio BonfiniAntonio Bonfini arrived in Florence during the year 1427. This Italian city served as a crucible for his early humanist education.
- Giovanni BoccaccioGiovanni Boccaccio was born on the 16th of June 1313 in either Florence or a village near Certaldo. His father worked for the Compagnia dei Bardi bank and…
- Leon Battista AlbertiLeon Battista Alberti was born on the 14th of February 1404 in Genoa. His father, Lorenzo di Benedetto Alberti, was a wealthy Florentine who had been exiled…
- PetrarchFrancesco di Petracco entered the world on the 20th of July 1304 in the Tuscan city of Arezzo. His father Ser Petracco worked as a notary, and his mother was…
- Luigi PirandelloLuigi Pirandello was born on the 28th of June 1867 in Girgenti, now known as Agrigento. He grew up near the poor suburb of Porto Empedocle within an…
- Felice RomaniGiuseppe Felice Romani entered the world on the 31st of January 1788 within a bourgeois family in Genoa. He pursued studies in law and literature at both…
- Filippo BuonaccorsiFilippo Buonaccorsi arrived in Rome during the year 1462. He joined a circle of scholars known as the Rome Academy. This group operated under the leadership…