WRITER

Alessandro Manzoni

1785 - 1873

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Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (UK: , US: , Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed (orig. Italian: I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Manzoni has received more than 537,966 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Alessandro Manzoni is the 492nd most popular writer (up from 596th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from Italy (up from 745th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Italian Writer.

Alessandro Manzoni is most famous for his novel The Betrothed, which was published in 1827.

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Notable Works

Adelchi
1934
Opere
1855
I promessi sposi
1827
Osservazioni sulla morale cattolica
1835
Promessi sposi
Government publications
1834

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alessandro Manzoni ranks 492 out of 7,302. Before him are Vuk Karadžić, Charles, Duke of Orléans, Wu Cheng'en, Giorgos Seferis, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Ludvig Holberg. After him are Eugene O'Neill, Muhammad Iqbal, Patricia Highsmith, George R. R. Martin, G. K. Chesterton, and Christopher Marlowe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, Alessandro Manzoni ranks 5. Before him are Louis XVII of France, Mahmud II, Jacob Grimm, and Karl Drais. After him are Bettina von Arnim, Lin Zexu, Claude-Louis Navier, Thomas De Quincey, Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Pierre Louis Dulong, and John James Audubon. Among people deceased in 1873, Alessandro Manzoni ranks 5. Before him are Napoleon III, John Stuart Mill, David Livingstone, and Justus von Liebig. After him are Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, John of Saxony, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Vasil Levski, and Amélie of Leuchtenberg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Manzoni ranks 613 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Agapetus I (490), Pope Stephen VI (850), Marsilius of Padua (1275), Cosima Wagner (1837), Constans (320), and Pinturicchio (1454). After him are Charles II of Naples (1254), Publius Clodius Pulcher (-90), Frank Capra (1897), Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (1782), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), and Olybrius (400).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Alessandro Manzoni ranks 42. Before him are Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Propertius (-50), Fausto Cercignani (1941), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Tibullus (-50), and Livius Andronicus (-280). After him are Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Statius (40), Gabriele Amorth (1925), Aulus Gellius (123), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), and Eugenio Montale (1896).

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