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- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi
- Claudio Magris
- Curzio Malaparte
- Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- Fabio Maniscalco
- Gianna Manzini
- Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873)
- Dacia Maraini
- Fosco Maraini (1912–2004)
- Diego Marani
- Lucrezia Marinella
- Chiara Matraini
- Margaret Mazzantini
- Carlo Mazzoni
- Fulvio Melia
- Maria Messina
- Franco Mimmi
- Grazyna Miller
- Massimo Mongai
- Eugenio Montale
- Maria Montessori
- Elsa Morante (1912–1985)
- Olympia Morata
- Alberto Moravia
- Daniele Luciano Moskal
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