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Five Italian classical writers for you to read

1 was born in Florence and is pretty much the undisputed king of Italian literature, known by Italians as the ‘Supreme Poet’. He is also, in Italian, based on the regional dialect of Tuscany, rather than in the usual Latin or Greek.

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