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Dante Alighieri

1265 - 1321

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Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; c. May 1265 – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language. Dante is known for establishing the use of the vernacular in literature at a time when most poetry was written in Latin, which was accessible only to educated readers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dante Alighieri has received more than 10,095,912 page views. His biography is available in 187 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 182 in 2019). Dante Alighieri is the 2nd most popular writer (up from 3rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Italy and the most popular Italian Writer.

Dante Alighieri is most famous for writing the Divine Comedy, a three-part epic poem that tells the story of Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.

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  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 91.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 187

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among writers, Dante Alighieri ranks 2 out of 7,302. Before him are Homer. After him are William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, and Victor Hugo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1265, Dante Alighieri ranks 1. After him are Duns Scotus, Beatrice Portinari, Temür Khan, Andrew III of Hungary, Alfonso III of Aragon, Henry of Bohemia, Emperor Fushimi, Ramon Muntaner, Lucia, Countess of Tripoli, María de Molina, and Otto III, Duke of Carinthia. Among people deceased in 1321, Dante Alighieri ranks 1. After him are Yunus Emre, Stefan Milutin, Matthew III Csák, Birger, King of Sweden, María de Molina, and Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Dante Alighieri ranks 8 out of 5,161. Before him are Marco Polo (1254), Galileo Galilei (1564), Christopher Columbus (1451), Julius Caesar (-100), Michelangelo (1475), and Archimedes (-287). After him are Augustus (-63), Raphael (1483), Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), and Commodus (161).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Dante Alighieri ranks 1. After him are Virgil (-70), Petrarch (1304), Ovid (-43), Giovanni Boccaccio (1313), Horace (-65), Giacomo Casanova (1725), Umberto Eco (1932), Giorgio Vasari (1511), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Plautus (-254), and Cato the Elder (-243).

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