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Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina

1815 - 1890

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Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina (August 28, 1815 - March 29, 1890) was an Italian journalist, patriot and politician. Considered one of the greatest journalists of the 19th century and a pioneer of modern journalism, he is mostly remembered for his war correspondence. He wrote for many Italian papers and contributed to the press in France, Great Britain and Belgium. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina has received more than 20,986 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina is the 3,789th most popular writer (up from 4,184th in 2019).

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Among writers, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina ranks 3,789 out of 7,302. Before him are Charles Grandison Finney, Iain Banks, Lise Nørgaard, Johannes Bobrowski, Gordon R. Dickson, and Viveca Sten. After him are Walter Kempowski, Francis Marrash, Israel Zangwill, Zhou Zuoren, Diphilus, and Remmius Palaemon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina ranks 51. Before him are Mykhailo Verbytskyi, Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Robert Volkmann, Johann Gottfried Piefke, Crawford Long, and Alphonse Beau de Rochas. After him are Aleksandr Baryatinsky, James B. Francis, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Alexander von Keyserling, Edward Forbes, and Eduard August von Regel. Among people deceased in 1890, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina ranks 46. Before him are Octave Feuillet, Otto August Rosenberger, Marianne North, Apollonie Sabatier, Prince Karl of Auersperg, and Johann Georg Halske. After him are John C. Frémont, Jacques-Louis Soret, Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal, Johanne Luise Heiberg, and Spotted Elk.

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