NOTABLE WRITER OF THE WORLD

1.  Italian scholar and poet, and one of the earliest humanists who is often called the "Father of Humanism" ?

Ans. Francesco Petrarca

2. Italian poet of the Middle Ages, who is also called the "Father of the Italian language"?

Ans. Durante degli Alighieri(Dante)

3. The first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey , known as the Father of English literature ?

Ans. Geoffrey Chaucer

4. Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance

Ans. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

5. Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims ?

Ans. Torquato Tasso

6. Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright whose magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern European novel ?

Ans. Miguel de Cervantes

7.  Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of poetry, the Heroides, Amores and Ars Amatoria, and of the Metamorphoses ?

Ans. Publius Ovidius Naso(Ovid)

8. Ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period who is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid ?

Ans. Publius Vergilius Maro(Virgil)

9. Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage"

Ans. Luigi Pirandello

10. Italian poet and novelist, famous for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature ?

Ans. Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni