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Also Known As	Decadentismo
Date	1890 - 1899
Related Artists	Gabriele D’Annunzio • Italo Svevo • Giovanni Pascoli • Antonio Fogazzaro

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Surrealism Beat movement Expressionism Symbolism Theatre of the Absurd Southern gothic Aestheticism fin de siècle Metaphysical poet Jacobean age