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Italian poetry is a category of Italian literature.

[edit] 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)
• Guido Gozzano (1883-1916) poet of the Decadent Movement, best known for his collection "I colloqui" (1911)
• Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)
• Eugenio Montale (1896 – 1981) won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1975.
• Cesare Pavese (1908 – 1950)

[edit] See also

• List of Italian language poets