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-	'''Italian poetry''' is a category of [[Italian literature]].	+
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-	==Important Italian poets==	+
-	* [[Giacomo da Lentini]] a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the [[sonnet]].	+
-	* [[Guido Cavalcanti]] (c.1255 - 1300) Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the [[Dolce Stil Novo]] movement.	+
-	* [[Dante Alighieri]] (1265 - 1321) wrote ''[[Divina Commedia]]'', one of the pinnacles of [[Middle Ages]] literature.	+
-	* [[Francesco Petrarca]] (1304 - 1374) famous for developing the [[Petrarchan sonnet]] in a collection of 366 poems called ''Canzoniere.''	+
-	* [[Ludovico Ariosto]] (1474 – 1533) wrote the epic poem ''[[Orlando furioso]]'' (1516).	+
-	* [[Torquato Tasso]] (1544 – 1595) wrote ''[[La Gerusalemme liberata]]'' (1580) in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the [[First Crusade]].	+
-	* [[Ugo Foscolo]] (1778 - 1827): best known for his poem "Dei Sepolcri"	+
-	* [[Giacomo Leopardi]] (1798 – 1837): his ''Canzoni'' are highly valued	+
-	* [[Giovanni Pascoli]] (1855 - 1912)	+
-	* [[Eugenio Montale]] (1896 – 1981) won the [[Nobel Prize in literature]] in 1975.	+
-	* [[Giuseppe Ungaretti]] (1888-1970)	+
-	* [[Cesare Pavese]] (1908 – 1950)	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	* [[List of Italian language poets]]	+
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