Italian Women Writers (IWW) The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) preserves and provides access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors from the beginning of Italian literature in the late 12th and 13th centuries up to authors born in 1945. Includes anthologies, articles and essays, autobiographies, biographies, children's literature, devotional works, dialogues, diaries, dramas, epics, hagiographies, histories and chronicles, interviews and more.