Classic Poets
Here you can find a selection of classic poems
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Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet. His Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages. Dante was instrumental in establishing the literature of Italy, and his depictions of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven provided inspiration for the larger body of Western art and literature. He is described as the …
Vincenzo Cardarelli (1887-1959)
Vincenzo Cardarelli was an Italian poet, writer and journalist. His poetry straddles the avant-garde and the restoration, as revealed by self-control and detached composure with avant-garde elements. His privileged topics are love, travel, adolescence and loss of identity.
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet, best known for his poem Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered, 1581). Tasso suffered from mental illness and died a few days before he was due to be crowned on the Capitoline Hill as the king of poets by the Pope.
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet, often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and founding Renaissance humanism, as well as developing the concept of the Dark Ages. His sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. Petrarch would be …