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Bartholomew Columbus

1460 - 1515

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Bartholomew Columbus (Genoese: Bertomê Corombo; Portuguese: Bartolomeu Colombo; Spanish: Bartolomé Colón; Italian: Bartolomeo Colombo; c. 1461 – 12 August 1515) was a Genoese explorer and the younger brother of Christopher Columbus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bartholomew Columbus has received more than 416,239 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Bartholomew Columbus is the 101st most popular explorer (up from 102nd in 2019), the 1,252nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,204th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Explorer.

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  • 420k

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  • 60.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Bartholomew Columbus ranks 101 out of 498. Before him are Carsten Niebuhr, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Calamity Jane, Ferdinand Columbus, Gonzalo Pizarro, and Philip Johan von Strahlenberg. After him are Enrique of Malacca, Juan de la Cosa, Michael Rockefeller, Mary Kingsley, Thomas Cavendish, and João Gonçalves Zarco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1460, Bartholomew Columbus ranks 8. Before him are Juan Ponce de León, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Johann Tetzel, Tristão da Cunha, Lorenzo Costa, and Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples. After him are Andrea Solari, Juan de la Cosa, Konstanty Ostrogski, Tilman Riemenschneider, Jacopo de' Barbari, and Judah Leon Abravanel. Among people deceased in 1515, Bartholomew Columbus ranks 6. Before him are Louis XII of France, Afonso de Albuquerque, Aldus Manutius, Meñli I Giray, and Alonso de Ojeda. After him are Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Mariotto Albertinelli, Abraham Zacuto, Barbara Zápolya, Barbara of Brandenburg, and Pietro Lombardo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bartholomew Columbus ranks 1,252 out of 5,161. Before him are Riccardo Broschi (1698), Mario Beccaria (1920), Antipope Eulalius (310), Angela of Foligno (1248), Marco Bellocchio (1939), and Francesco Foscari (1373). After him are Scipione Borghese (1577), Sebastiano Venier (1496), Andrea Solari (1460), Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439), Maria Cristina of Savoy (1812), and Baldassare Longhena (1596).

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Among EXPLORERS In Italy

Among explorers born in Italy, Bartholomew Columbus ranks 9. Before him are Amerigo Vespucci (1454), John Cabot (1450), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485), Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852), and Sebastian Cabot (1484). After him are Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Niccolò de' Conti (1395), Lancelotto Malocello (1270), Alejandro Malaspina (1754), Cristoforo Buondelmonti (1385), and Ippolito Rosellini (1800).

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