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Italian male dramatists and playwrights

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Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian diplomat and political and military theorist (1469–1527)
Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Dario Fo
Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician (1863-1938)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
Carlo Goldoni
Italian playwright (1707-1793)
Ludovico Ariosto
Italian poet (1474–1533)
Alberto Moravia
Italian writer and journalist (1907-1990)
Clement IX
pope from 1667, lived 1600-1669
Ugo Foscolo
Italian writer and poet (1778–1827)
Pietro Metastasio
Italian poet and librettist (1698–1782)
Italo Svevo
Italian writer (1861-1928)
Dino Buzzati
Italian writer (1906-1972)
Vittorio Alfieri
Italian noble, dramatist and poet (1749–1803)
Pietro Aretino
Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer (1492-1556)
Curzio Malaparte
Italian writer (1898-1957)
Carlo Gozzi
Italian playwright (1720-1806)
Totò
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
Alessandro Baricco
Italian writer
Eduardo De Filippo
Italian actor, director and playwright (1900–1984)
Silvio Pellico
Italian writer and poet
Rafael Sabatini
Italian–English writer (1875–1950)
Nino Manfredi
Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director (1921–2004)
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist (1911–2007)
Vladimir Bartol
Slovenian writer (1903-1967)
Matteo Bandello
Italian writer
Massimo Bontempelli
Italian writer (1878-1960)
Giuseppe Giacosa
Italian librettist, poet and writer (1847-1906)
Gian Giorgio Trissino
Italian Renaissance humanist
Felice Romani
Italian writer (1788-1865)
Giovanni Battista Guarini
Italian poet
Vincenzo Monti
Italian writer (1754-1828)
Luigi Illica
Italian librettist (1857–1919)
Salvadore Cammarano
Italian librettist and playwright (1801-1852)
Antonio Ghislanzoni
Italian journalist, poet, and novelist (1824-1893)
Gabriello Chiabrera
Italian poet (1552-1638)
Vitaliano Brancati
Italian writer (1907–1954)
Angelo Beolco
Italian dramatist
Apostolo Zeno
Venetian poet (1668–1750)
Ugo Betti
Italian writer and judge (1892–1953)
Ottavio Rinuccini
Italian poet (1562-1621)
Temistocle Solera
Italian opera librettist
Giovanni Battista Casti
poet and librettist from Italy (1724-1803)
Bernardo Dovizi
Italian cardinal and playwright
Giuseppe Adami
Italian opera librettist (1878-1946)
Nino Martoglio
Italian writer (1870-1921)
Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Italian poet and librettist (1714-1795)
Sem Benelli
Italian playwright, essayist and librettist (1877–1949)
Agnolo Firenzuola
Italian poet and litterateur
Nicola Francesco Haym
Italian composer and musician (1678-1729)
Cesare Sterbini
Italian writer and librettist
Antonio Francesco Grazzini
Italian writer, poet and playwright of XVI century
Giovanni Battista Niccolini
poet and playwright of the Risorgimento
Sergio Fantoni
Italian actor (1930-2020)
Alessandro Striggio
Italian opera librettist
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Italian film director (1921–2005)
Saverio Bettinelli
Italian Jesuit writer (1718-1808)
Pietro Sforza Pallavicino
Catholic cardinal (1607-1667)
Emanuele Tesauro
Italian writer and historian
Sergio Tofano
Italian actor (1886-1973)