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[caption id="attachment_574" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Luigi Pirandello[/caption] The founder of futurism, the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, used language stripped to essentials. Insisting that 20th-century literature should express the characteristic dynamism of…

[caption id="attachment_571" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi[/caption] A reaction against classicism and romanticism as unrealistic marked the second half of the 19th century. It was a revolt against a…

[caption id="attachment_568" align="alignnone" width="800"] Alessandro Manzoni[/caption] Liberation and unification had been a hope of Italian writers since the 13th century. At that time nationalism had been manifested, among other ways,…

[caption id="attachment_565" align="aligncenter" width="800"] A play by Carlo Goldoni[/caption] Italy, beginning in the late 15th century, was exhausted by constant wars as rival Spanish, French, and Austrian rulers made the…

[caption id="attachment_562" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Niccolò Machiavelli[/caption] The Renaissance reached its fulfillment in the 16th century. Italian, long eclipsed by the humanists’ preoccupation with Greek and Latin, rose to a new…

[caption id="attachment_577" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Dario Fo[/caption] Other notable postwar novelists are Dino Buzzati, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi, and Italo Calvino. Buzzati's allegorical writings, which owe a debt to…