- Balzac, Honoré de
- Barrett Browning, Elizabeth
- Bashō, Matsuo
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Beckett, Samuel
- Blixen, Karen
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Brontë, Anne
- Brontë, Charlotte
- Brontë, Emily
- Browining, Robert
- Burns, Robert
- Buzzati, Dino
- Byron, George Gordon
- Calvino, Italo
- Campana, Dino
- Carducci, Giosuè
- Carroll, Lewis
- Carver, Raymond
- Cervantes, Miguel de
- Christie, Agatha
- Collodi, Carlo
- Dahl, Roald
- D’Annunzio, Gabriele
- De Amicis, Edmondo
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickinson, Emily
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Dumas, Alexandre
- Gadda, Carlo Emilio
- Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
- Goldoni, Carlo
- Gozzano, Guido
- Guareschi, Giovannino
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Héaney, Seamus
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Hesse, Hermann
- Higuchi Ichiyō
- Hogg, James
- Hugo, Victor
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Manzoni, Alessandro
- Merini, Alda
- Milton, John
- Mishima, Yukio
- Montale, Eugenio
- Monti, Vincenzo
- Morante, Elsa
- Moravia, Alberto
- Mori Ōgai
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Muratori, Ludovico Antonio
- Musil, Robert
- Parini, Giuseppe
- Pascoli, Giovanni
- Pavese, Cesare
- Pessoa, Fernando
- Petrarca, Francesco
- Pirandello, Luigi
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Potter, Beatrix
- Pratolini, Vasco
- Proust, Marcel
- Saba, Umberto
- Salinger, J.D.
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
- Scotellaro, Rocco
- Scott, Walter
- Shakespeare, William
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Shelley, Mary
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Silone, Ignazio
- Słowacki, Juliusz
- Sōseki, Natsume
- Steinbeck, John
- Stendhal
- Stoker, Bram
- Svevo, Italo
- Swift, Jonathan