Shakespeare or Dante

>>2379101
The Italian language as we know it quite literally would not exist without Dante.

>>2379151
>Dante
*Petrarch, Boccaccio and Pietro Bembo
I mean you're kinda right, but the above are arguably more important

>>2379151
So, Shakespeare.

probably shakespeare as it stands with our current understanding, but there's been recentish research casting doubts upon how many words/phrases shakespeare actually created rather than just lifted from other people

>>2379172
All the Florentine masters but Dante is clearly the pre-eminent among them. To this day it Italy he is known simply as "The Poet"
>>2379176
Christopher Marlowe desu

>>2379200

Francis Bacon t b h

>>2379101

It doesn't matter.

Italian is unimportant as a language so Shakespeare wins by default.