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| '''Italian literature''' is [[literature]] written in the [[Italian language]], particularly by citizens of [[Italy]]. It may also refer to literature written by people living in Italy who speak other languages. The collective works have a long, influential history. Prominent authors include [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Machiavelli]] and [[Petrarch]]. For works from [[ancient Rome]] see [[Latin literature]]. | '''Italian literature''' is [[literature]] written in the [[Italian language]], particularly by citizens of [[Italy]]. It may also refer to literature written by people living in Italy who speak other languages. The collective works have a long, influential history. Prominent authors include [[Dante Alighieri]], [[Machiavelli]] and [[Petrarch]]. For works from [[ancient Rome]] see [[Latin literature]]. | ||
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| - | Important early 20th century writers include [[Italo Svevo]], the author of ''La coscienza di Zeno'' (1923); [[Luigi Pirandello]], who explored the shifting nature of reality in his prose fiction and such plays as ''Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore'' (''[[Six Characters in Search of an Author]]'', 1921) ; and the novelists [[Giovanni Verga]] (an exponent of ''verismo'' or [[Naturalism (literature)|Naturalism]]) and [[Cesare Pavese]]. Poetry was represented by the [[Crepuscolari]] and the [[Futurism|Futurists]]; the foremost member of the latter group was [[Filippo Marinetti]]. Leading [[Modernism|Modernist]] poets from later in the century include [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], [[Giuseppe Ungaretti]] and [[Eugenio Montale]] (winner of the 1975 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]), described by critics as "hermeticists". [[Dino Buzzati]] wrote fantastic and allegorical fiction which has been compared to [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]] and [[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]]. [[Italo Calvino]] also ventured into fantasy in the trilogy ''I nostri antenati'' (''[[Our Ancestors]]'', 1952-1959) and [[post-modernism]] in the novel ''Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore...'' (''[[If on a Winter's Night a Traveler|If on a Winter's Night a Traveller]]'', 1979). [[Primo Levi]] documented his experiences in [[Auschwitz]] in ''Se questo è un uomo'' (''[[If This Is a Man]]'') and other books. [[Giuseppe di Lampedusa]] wrote only one novel, ''[[Il Gattopardo]]'' (''The Leopard'', 1958), but it is one of the most famous in Italian literature; it deals with the life of a [[Sicily|Sicilian]] nobleman in the 19th century. Other novelists include [[Alberto Moravia]] (e.g. ''[[The Conformist|Il conformista]]'', 1951); [[Carlo Emilio Gadda]], author of the experimental ''Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana'' (1957); [[Natalia Ginzburg]]; and the Sicilian [[Leonardo Sciascia]]. [[Umberto Saba]] won fame for his collection of poems ''Il canzoniere''. [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]] was a controversial poet and novelist. More recently, [[Umberto Eco]] became internationally successful with his novel ''Il nome della rosa'' (''[[The Name of the Rose]]'', 1980). | ||
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| - | See also: [[Pitigrilli]] | ||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
| *[[20th century Italian literature]] | *[[20th century Italian literature]] | ||
| *[[Romanzo d'appendìce]] | *[[Romanzo d'appendìce]] | ||
| + | *[[Pitigrilli]] | ||
| *[[Isabella Santacroce]] | *[[Isabella Santacroce]] | ||
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Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly by citizens of Italy. It may also refer to literature written by people living in Italy who speak other languages. The collective works have a long, influential history. Prominent authors include Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli and Petrarch. For works from ancient Rome see Latin literature.
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