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| 1462 |
| | | In keeping with his personal interest in Plato, Cosimo de' Medici founds a Platonic Academy in Florence | |
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| 1487 |
| | | Boiardo publishes a romantic epic, Orlando Innamorato, about Roland's love for a bewitching princess | |
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| 1516 |
| | | Ariosto, in Orlando Furioso, tells of Roland's madness when he is abandoned by the pagan princess Angelica | |
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| 1581 |
| | | Tasso, in Gerusalemme Liberata ('Jerusalem Liberated'), turns the first crusade into a romantic epic | |
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| c. 1740 |
| | | Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni makes a success of plays in the ancient commedia dell'arte tradition | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Italian author Alessandro Manzoni begins publication (completed 1827) of his novel I Promessi Sposi ('The Betrothed') | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Within a five-week period the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello writes two masterpieces, Six Characters in Search of an Author immediately followed by Henry IV | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Italian novelist Italo Svevo has his first great success when The Confessions of Zeno is published in France | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Italian poet Eugenio Montale publishes his first collection, Bones of the Cuttlefish | |
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