WRITER

Duarte Barbosa

1480 - 1521

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Duarte Barbosa (c. 1480 – 1 May 1521) was a Portuguese writer and officer from Portuguese India (between 1500 and 1516). He was a scrivener in a feitoria in Kochi, and an interpreter of the local language, Malayalam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duarte Barbosa has received more than 279,245 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Duarte Barbosa is the 3,276th most popular writer (down from 3,094th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 230th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Portuguese Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Duarte Barbosa ranks 3,276 out of 7,302Before him are Futabatei Shimei, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Julius Obsequens, Curt von Bardeleben, John Brunner, and Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh. After him are Mariano Azuela, Willa Cather, Joanna Chmielewska, Wallace Stevens, Mahmoud Shabestari, and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Duarte Barbosa ranks 34Before him are Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Pedro Damiano, Girolamo Savoldo, Girolamo Aleandro, Antonio de Guevara, and Frederick II of Legnica. After him are Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, Vannoccio Biringuccio, and Lourenço de Almeida. Among people deceased in 1521, Duarte Barbosa ranks 16Before him are Francisco Serrão, Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon, Raffaele Riario, Jorge Álvares, Tamás Bakócz, and Neagoe Basarab. After him are Al-Mustamsik, John II, Duke of Cleves, and Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Duarte Barbosa ranks 255 out of 633Before him are Maria de Medeiros (1965), Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (1415), Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887), Rosa Mota (1958), José Policarpo (1936), and Pedro da Fonseca (1528). After him are José Peseiro (1960), João Félix (1999), Fernão de Loronha (1470), Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), Fábio Coentrão (1988), and Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza (1510).

Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Duarte Barbosa ranks 18Before him are Tomé Pires (1468), António Vieira (1608), Mariana Alcoforado (1640), Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919), Alexandre Herculano (1810), and Miguel Torga (1907). After him are Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890), Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança (1907), Jorge de Montemor (1520), António Ferreira (1528), and Christopher Hampton (1946).