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Cassiodorus

487 - 583

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Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), was a Christian, Roman statesman, renowned scholar of antiquity, and writer serving in the administration of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cassiodorus has received more than 399,006 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Cassiodorus is the 524th most popular writer (down from 327th in 2019), the 653rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 426th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Italian Writer.

Cassiodorus was an Italian scholar and statesman who was a leading figure in the court of Theodoric the Great. He was the author of the "Institutes" and the "Variae", and his writings on the monastic life, including the "Laws", were very influential in medieval monasticism.

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  • 400k

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  • 66.03

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cassiodorus ranks 524 out of 5,755Before him are Giacomo Leopardi, Jostein Gaarder, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Ismail Kadare, Giorgos Seferis, and Gérard de Nerval. After him are Sidney Sheldon, Lesya Ukrainka, T. S. Eliot, Paul Claudel, Muhammad Iqbal, and José Martí.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 487, Cassiodorus ranks 1After him is Malo. Among people deceased in 583, Cassiodorus ranks 1

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cassiodorus ranks 653 out of 4,668Before him are Dario Argento (1940), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1769), Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666), Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (1562), and John William Waterhouse (1849). After him are Agathocles of Syracuse (-361), Theano (-600), Pope Sergius II (800), Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (1685), Pope Mark (290), and Joseph of Cupertino (1603).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Cassiodorus ranks 45Before him are Statius (40), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Francesca da Rimini (1259), Fausto Cercignani (1941), and Giacomo Leopardi (1798). After him are Aulus Gellius (123), Theocritus (-315), Dino Buzzati (1906), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Pietro Metastasio (1698), and Alessandro Manzoni (1785).