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Antonio Possevino

1533 - 1611

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Antonio Possevino (Antonius Possevinus) (10 July 1533 – 26 February 1611) was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation as a papal diplomat and a Jesuit controversialist, polemicist, encyclopedist, and bibliographer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio Possevino has received more than 53,183 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Antonio Possevino is the 7,787th most popular politician (down from 6,781st in 2019), the 2,045th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,822nd in 2019) and the 516th most popular Italian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Antonio Possevino ranks 7,787 out of 19,576. Before him are Annia Faustina, Hitoshi Ashida, Edgar Faure, Cetshwayo kaMpande, Ivan Susanin, and Hōjō Yoshitoki. After him are Stefan Branković, Aslan Abashidze, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Ferrante Gonzaga, Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, and Conrad I of Burgundy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1533, Antonio Possevino ranks 17. Before him are Abdullah Khan II, Claudio Merulo, Mōri Terumoto, Hieronymus Fabricius, Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Eknath. After him are Alonso de Ercilla, Cornelis Cort, Ōmura Sumitada, Valentin Weigel, Joachim Beuckelaer, and Asakura Yoshikage. Among people deceased in 1611, Antonio Possevino ranks 13. Before him are Katō Kiyomasa, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, Sanada Masayuki, Christian II, Elector of Saxony, Kuyucu Murad Pasha, and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. After him are Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, Princess Sophia of Sweden, Simon I of Kartli, Jan Piotr Sapieha, Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Gioseffo Guami.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Possevino ranks 2,045 out of 5,161. Before him are Roger III of Sicily (1175), Anna Sforza (1476), Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1727), Aloysius Bertrand (1807), Antonio Grimani (1434), and Walter VI, Count of Brienne (1302). After him are Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457), Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1514), Ferrante Gonzaga (1507), Bartolomeo Montagna (1450), Alberto Lattuada (1914), and Antipope Sylvester IV (1100).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Antonio Possevino ranks 516. Before him are Servius Sulpicius Galba (-190), Rainier I of Monaco, Lord of Cagnes (1267), Roger III of Sicily (1175), Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1727), Antonio Grimani (1434), and Walter VI, Count of Brienne (1302). After him are Ferrante Gonzaga (1507), Leonora Dori (1568), Obelerio degli Antenori (800), Princess Margaret Yolande of Savoy (1635), Sabinus Julianus (300), and Theophylact I, Count of Tusculum (860).

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