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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1828 - 1882

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Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( rə-ZET-ee; Italian: [rosˈsetti]), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti inspired the next generation of artists and writers, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in particular. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dante Gabriel Rossetti has received more than 2,347,036 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Dante Gabriel Rossetti is the 483rd most popular writer (down from 422nd in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 328th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Writer.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a painter, illustrator, and poet. He was also one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His most famous painting is probably The Girlhood of Mary Virgin.

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  • 63

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  • 4.40

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ranks 483 out of 7,302. Before him are Bohumil Hrabal, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Martial, W. B. Yeats, Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Maria Leopoldina of Austria. After him are Luo Guanzhong, Edward Said, Vuk Karadžić, Charles, Duke of Orléans, Wu Cheng'en, and Giorgos Seferis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ranks 10. Before him are Henrik Ibsen, Saigō Takamori, Rani of Jhansi, Hippolyte Taine, Charbel Makhlouf, and Randal Cremer. After him are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Ferdinand Cohn, Albert Marth, Louise of the Netherlands, Albert of Saxony, and John Langdon Down. Among people deceased in 1882, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ranks 8. Before him are Giuseppe Garibaldi, Friedrich Wöhler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Arthur de Gobineau, Theodor Schwann, and Jesse James. After him are Bruno Bauer, William Stanley Jevons, Francesco Hayez, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, and Joseph Liouville.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ranks 346 out of 8,785. Before him are William Baffin (1584), Benjamin Britten (1913), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), David Beckham (1975), Malcolm McDowell (1943), and Chaim Herzog (1918). After him are William Henry Bragg (1862), G. K. Chesterton (1874), Angela Lansbury (1925), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Alan Bates (1934), and Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ranks 36. Before him are Ken Follett (1949), Ian Fleming (1908), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792), John Keats (1795), Graham Greene (1904), and John Galsworthy (1867). After him are G. K. Chesterton (1874), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Thomas Paine (1737), Philip Larkin (1922), Anthony Burgess (1917), and Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849).

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