20th-century Italian male writers

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)

head of the Catholic Church from 1958 to 1963

pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978 (1897–1978)

pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958

pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922

Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)

Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director (born 1952)

Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)

Italian writer (1846-1908)

Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)

Italian philosopher and esotericist (1898-1974)

Italian actor (1920–2003)

Sicilian Prince and writer (1896-1957)

Italian actor and director (1922–2000)

Italian writer (1840-1922)

Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, born 1866

Italian writer (1898-1957)

Italian actor

Italian writer

Italian poet and classical scholar (1855-1912)

Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi De Curtis di Bisanzio (15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967), best known by his stage name Totò (), or simply as Antonio de Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata ("the prince of laughter"), was an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, dramatist, poet, singer and lyricist. He is commonly referred to as one of the most popular Italian performers of all time. While best known for his funny and sometimes cynical comic characters in theatre and then many successful comedy films made from the 1940s to the 1960s, he also w

Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist (1908-1968)

Italian writer (1921-1989)

Italian actor, film director, and poet (1953–1994)

Italian film and theatre actor, director and screenwriter (1922-1990)

Italian poet and novelist (1883-1957)

Italian actor, director and playwright (1900–1984)

Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (1921–2004)

Italian–English writer (1875–1950)

Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)

Italian actor, writer and comedian (1932–2017)

Italian journalist and writer (1932–2009)

Italian writer

Italian film director, screenwriter and actor (1928—1997)

Italian writer (1893-1973)

Italian writer and novelist (1908–1966)

Italian screenwriter (1902–1989)

Italian Capuchin, priest, theologian and preacher to the Papal Household since 1980 and Cardinal

Italian filmmaker (1927–1996)

Italian writer and engineer (1928–2019)

Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays, and plays (1895–1956)

Italian writer (1842-1911)

Italian writer (1966)

Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor (1900–1987)

Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter (1920-2012)

Italian historian (1939-)

Italian anthropologist and writer (1939–2017)

Italian film director and screenwriter (1926–1982)

Italian writer (1913-1991)

Italian film director and screenwriter (1913–1985)

Italian novelist, poet and translator

Italian poet

Italian architect, historian, and professor (1918-2000)

Italian writer (1883–1920)

Italian writer (1891–1985)