Who's the Best Italian Writer of All Time?

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This Classora survey tries to capture the biggest names in Italian literature, regardless of genre. Notwithstanding this however, we may have missed an important name or two as well as writers that may not be very well known. Therefore we hope our users will enrich this report by providing names and opinions. On the other hand, it's always difficult to determine the best representative of all time of a specific subject. And when talking about literature this may be even more problematic, due to its subjective nature. So please be our guest and participate. Vote the best Italian writers of all time.

Author: diego (Updated Apr 16, 2019)
Sources: Classora Rankings Group

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	Writer
1	Dante Alighieri	1,192
2	Giovanni Boccaccio	818
3	Francesco Petrarca	726
4	Umberto Eco	432
5	Alessandro Manzoni	396
6	Nicolás Maquiavelo	385
7	Francis of Assisi	383
8	Giacomo Leopardi	253
9	Italo Calvino	205
10	Giovanni Papini	199
11	Ovidio	190
12	Luigi Pirandello	183
13	Cesare Pavese	150
14	Alberto Moravia	145
15	Dario Fo	133
16	Carlo Levi	116
17	Salvatore Quasimodo	111
18	Giosuè Carducci	100
19	Carlo Goldoni	99
20	Marco Polo	91
21	Eugenio Montale	83
22	Primo Levi	78
23	Carlo Gozzi	71
24	Gabriele D´Annunzio	68
25	Edoardo Sanguineti	67
26	Ugo Betti	60
27	Lucretius	56
28	Guittone d´Arezzo	55
29	Carlo Collodi	54
30	Guido Cavalcanti	51
31	Cino da Pistoia	49
32	Girolamo da Sommaia	49
33	Coluccio Salutati	49
34	Ardengo Soffici	46
35	Giuseppe Ungaretti	45
36	Andrea Zanzotto	42
37	Paolo Conte	39
38	Vincenzo Cardarelli	38
39	Giambattista Basile	38
40	Maria Grazia Siliato	38
41	Giovanni Pascoli	37
42	Federico Traversa	37
43	Umberto Saba	36
44	Enzo di Grazia	36
45	Michelangelo Buonarroti	36
46	Guido Guinizelli	34
47	Paolo Giordano	34
48	Giorgio Faletti	33
49	Melissa Panarello	33
50	Giovanni Macchia	31

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