Endless reality badly restricting Italian people of letters (8)
I believe the answer is:
literati
'people of letters' is the definition.
The definition suggests a plural noun which matches the answer.
'endless reality badly restricting italian' is the wordplay.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'badly' indicates an anagram (letters in the wrong order).
'restricting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'italian' becomes 'it' (common abbreviation).
'reality' with its final letter taken away is 'realit'.
'realit' anagrammed gives 'lerati'.
'lerati' enclosing 'it' is 'LITERATI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for literati that I've seen before include "educated set" , "Well-educated readers" , "intellectuals" , "Bookish types" , "Literary intelligentsia" .)