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 Sep 9, 2018)
Sources: Classora Rankings Group

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	Writer
1	Dante Alighieri	1,172
2	Giovanni Boccaccio	808
3	Francesco Petrarca	725
4	Umberto Eco	432
5	Alessandro Manzoni	396
6	Nicolás Maquiavelo	385
7	Francis of Assisi	375
8	Giacomo Leopardi	253
9	Italo Calvino	205
10	Giovanni Papini	199
11	Luigi Pirandello	183
12	Ovidio	171
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	Carlo Collodi	54
28	Girolamo da Sommaia	49
29	Coluccio Salutati	49
30	Lucretius	47
31	Ardengo Soffici	46
32	Guido Cavalcanti	44
33	Andrea Zanzotto	42
34	Cino da Pistoia	41
35	Guittone d´Arezzo	39
36	Paolo Conte	39
37	Vincenzo Cardarelli	38
38	Giambattista Basile	38
39	Maria Grazia Siliato	38
40	Giuseppe Ungaretti	37
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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