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The Seven Messengers

1942 short story collection by Dino Buzzati

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ2375534 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Seven Messengers (Italian: I sette messaggeri) is a collection of short stories written by Dino Buzzati and published as a book in 1942. It contains nineteen short tales, in which the characters often interact with the presence of the fantastic and/or death, many of which are left unconcluded, leaving the reader in suspense or trying to guess their ending. "The Seven Messengers" is also the name of the book's first short story.

The story "Sette piani" was the basis for the 1967 film The Seventh Floor.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Seven Messengers” as 1942 short story collection by Dino Buzzati. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942. The account is most persuasive where Seven, Messengers and short can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1942 short story collection by Dino Buzzati. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2375534. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942 and 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Seven Messengers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.