WRITER

Alessandro Tassoni

1565 - 1635

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Alessandro Tassoni (28 September 1565 – 25 April 1635) was an Italian poet and writer, from Modena, best known as the author of the mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita (The Rape of the Pail, or The stolen bucket). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Tassoni has received more than 38,523 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Tassoni is the 3,640th most popular writer (up from 3,804th in 2019), the 3,053rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,004th in 2019) and the 212th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alessandro Tassoni ranks 3,640 out of 7,302Before him are François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Andrija Kačić Miošić, Lesches, Johann Heinrich Voss, Aleksey Pisemsky, and Michitsuna's mother. After him are Ivo Vojnović, Tibor Déry, Eiko Kadono, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Lillian Hellman, and Siegfried Sassoon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1565, Alessandro Tassoni ranks 14Before him are Luís Vaz de Torres, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Ketevan the Martyr, Hendrick de Keyser, Peter Fourier, and Jacob de Gheyn II. After him are Nicolò Longobardo, Edward Fortunatus, and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah. Among people deceased in 1635, Alessandro Tassoni ranks 13Before him are Reza Abbasi, Elisabeth of Lorraine, Fakhr al-Din II, Joos de Momper, Friedrich Spee, and Domenico Tintoretto. After him are Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen, John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Johann Faulhaber, Luke Foxe, and Thomas Ravenscroft.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Tassoni ranks 3,053 out of 5,161Before him are Mantovani (1905), Errico Petrella (1813), Giacomo Ceruti (1698), Giuseppe Versaldi (1943), Domitia (null), and Giovanni Galli (1958). After him are Lorenzo Priuli (1489), Francesco Araja (1709), Felice Anerio (1560), Nicolò Marcello (1397), Domenico II Contarini (1585), and Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus (100).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Alessandro Tassoni ranks 212Before him are Giuseppe Parini (1729), Arator (500), Teofilo Folengo (1491), Luciano De Crescenzo (1928), Ranieri de' Calzabigi (1714), and Vasco Pratolini (1913). After him are Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526), Laura Mancinelli (1933), Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791), Luigi Capuana (1839), Girolamo de Rada (1814), and Angelo de Gubernatis (1840).