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Here's all 115 authors with nationality analphabetically ordered:

Ariosto (1474-1533)
Charles V (1337-1558) - Roman emperor
Giusti (1809-1850)
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Pope John Paul I (1912-1978) - religion
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963) - enthroned, 5 September, 1316.
Pope Paul VI (1897-1978) - Italian religious leader
Saint Jerome (347-419) - Italian religion
Nicola Abbagnano (1901-1990) - Italian philospher
Harold Acton (1904-1994)
Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803)
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Italian writer
Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908) - of popular travel books and children's stories.
Giulio Andreotti (1919-)
Mario Andretti (1940-)
Aharon Appelfeld (1932-) - Romanian writer
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) - Italian writer
Asia Argento (1975-)
Dario Argento (1940-) - Italian movie writer produce
Saint Augustine (354-430) - of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church.
Decimus Maximus Ausonius (310-395) - Italian poet
Monica Bellucci (1968-)
Ugo Betti (1892-1953) - Italian playwright
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) - Italian wrtier
Andrea Bocelli (1958-)
Giovanni Boine (1887-1917)
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
Italo Calvino (1923-1985)
Frank Capra (1897-1991) - US movie director
Claudia Cardinale (1938-) - Italian actor
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) - Italian singer
Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) - statesman
Andrei Codrescu (1946-) - Romanian writer
Silvia Colloca (1978-)
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - Italian explorer
Maria Grazia Cucinotta (1968-)
Tony Curtis (1925-) - Italian actor
Seingalt Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de (1725-1798) - Italian writer
Vittorio de Sica (1902-1974)
Danny DeVito (1944-) - b.b.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957)
Aelius Donatus (4-) - Italian grammarian, scholar
Eleanora Duse (1858-1924)
Umberto Eco (1932-)
Federico Fellini (1920-1993) - known for freely structured films in which dreams and reality mingle.
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) - Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938.
Dario Fo (1926-)
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) - who made fundamental contributions to the development of the scientific method and to the sciences of motion, astronomy and strength of materials.
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882)
Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) - who dealt unsentimentally with family relationships in her writings.
Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515)
Carlo Goldoni (1707-1812)
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) - of the Italian Communist Party whose ideas still greatly influence Italian Communism.
Giovanni Guareschi (1908-1968)
Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540)
Pope Boniface III - ?
Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) - Italian writer
Fabio Lanzoni (1961-) - Italian model
Irving Layton (1912-) - Romania-born writer
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
Primo Levi (1919-1987)
Gina Lollobrigida (1927-)
Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) - of the science of criminology.
Sophia Loren (1934-)
George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) - US writer/editor
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Anna Magnani (1908-1973)
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)
Marcus Valerius Martialus (40-102)
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) - Italian actor
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) - of the secret revolutionary society Young Italy (1832).
Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Maria Montessori (1870-1952) - Italian educator
Alberto Moravia (1907-1990)
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) - Italian dictator
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-17 BC) - of Metamorphoses.
Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)
Luciano Pavarotti (1935-) - Italian singer
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) - who introduced many modern US and English writers to Italy.
Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) - Italian writer
Phaedrus (15-50) - Italian writer
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) - who became famous as an innovator in modern drama with his creation of the ?theater within the theater? in the 1920s.
Titus Maccius Plautus (250 BC-184 BC) - Italian writer
Antonio Porchia (1886-1968) - Italian writer
Federico Pozzolo
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) - Italian composer
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.
Isabella Rossellini (1952-) - Italian actor
Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977)
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) - Italian music composer
Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530)
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) - Italian-US artist
Elsa Schiaparelli (1896-1973) - whose use of accessories and dramatic colours enlivened the fashion scene for 40 years.
Martin Scorsese (1942-)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65) - Roman philosopher
Ignazio Silone (1900-1978)
Alberto Sordi (1920-)
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) - Italian pol
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)
Terence (195 BC-159 BC) - of the Roman Republic. 195 BC
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) - Italian composer
John Turturro (1957-)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - Italian composer
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) - Italian philosopher
Pope Boniface VIII (1235-1303)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
Virgil (70 BC-19 BC) - of the epic, Aeneid.
Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) - Italian director
J. Donald Walters
Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)
Pius XII (1876-1958) - (1939-58).

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