1712 - 1764
Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He was a friend of Frederick the Great and leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francesco Algarotti has received more than 138,435 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Francesco Algarotti is the 668th most popular philosopher (up from 791st in 2019), the 1,907th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,227th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Italian Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Francesco Algarotti ranks 668 out of 1,081. Before him are Olympiodorus the Younger, Svetozar Marković, Diodorus Cronus, Alfred Schmidt, Amalric of Bena, and Gilbert de la Porrée. After him are Isaac Israeli ben Solomon, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, William Paley, Pyotr Lavrov, Jerry Fodor, and Olavo de Carvalho.
495 - 570
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 662
1846 - 1875
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 663
400 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 664
1931 - 2012
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 665
1150 - 1206
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 666
1070 - 1154
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 667
1712 - 1764
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 668
832 - Present
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 669
1717 - 1778
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 670
1743 - 1805
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 671
1823 - 1900
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 672
1935 - 2017
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 673
1947 - 2022
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 674
Among people born in 1712, Francesco Algarotti ranks 11. Before him are Francesco Guardi, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Sayat-Nova, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, and Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle. After him are Tokugawa Ieshige, Toriyama Sekien, George Grenville, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Johann Samuel König, and Konrad Ernst Ackermann. Among people deceased in 1764, Francesco Algarotti ranks 11. Before him are Christian Goldbach, Pietro Locatelli, Jean-Marie Leclair, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Johann Mattheson, and Erik Pontoppidan. After him are William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Semyon Chelyuskin, Nathaniel Bliss, Picander, and Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.
1712 - 1793
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 5
1712 - 1760
HPI: 63.28
Rank: 6
1712 - 1795
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 7
1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 8
1712 - 1759
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 9
1712 - 1741
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 10
1712 - 1764
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 11
1712 - 1761
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 12
1712 - 1788
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 13
1712 - 1770
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 14
1712 - 1789
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 15
1712 - 1757
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 16
1712 - 1771
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 17
1690 - 1764
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 5
1695 - 1764
HPI: 62.03
Rank: 6
1697 - 1764
HPI: 60.87
Rank: 7
1697 - 1764
HPI: 60.78
Rank: 8
1681 - 1764
HPI: 60.54
Rank: 9
1698 - 1764
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 10
1712 - 1764
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 11
1720 - 1764
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 12
1676 - 1764
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 13
1700 - 1764
HPI: 51.21
Rank: 14
1700 - 1764
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 15
1700 - 1764
HPI: 49.52
Rank: 16
1705 - 1764
HPI: 47.66
Rank: 17
Among people born in Italy, Francesco Algarotti ranks 1,907 out of 4,668. Before him are Vitalis of Milan (null), Humbert II, Count of Savoy (1065), Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (1939), Properzia de' Rossi (1490), Carmine Crocco (1830), and Aurelio Peccei (1908). After him are Roger of Salerno (1100), Gerolama Orsini (1503), Giulio Alberoni (1664), Maria Salviati (1499), Riz Ortolani (1926), and Nevio Scala (1947).
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 1,901
1065 - 1103
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 1,902
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 1,903
1490 - 1530
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 1,904
1830 - 1905
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 1,905
1908 - 1984
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 1,906
1712 - 1764
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 1,907
1100 - 1119
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 1,908
1503 - 1569
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 1,909
1664 - 1752
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 1,910
1499 - 1543
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 1,911
1926 - 2014
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 1,912
1947 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 1,913
Among philosophers born in Italy, Francesco Algarotti ranks 51. Before him are Pietro d'Abano (1250), Nicola Abbagnano (1901), Cristoforo Landino (1424), Guarino da Verona (1374), Giles of Rome (1243), and Antonio Labriola (1843). After him are Antonio Rosmini (1797), Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707), Pantaenus (200), Luigi Guido Grandi (1671), Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889), and Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672).
1250 - 1315
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 45
1901 - 1990
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 46
1424 - 1498
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 47
1374 - 1460
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 48
1243 - 1316
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 49
1843 - 1904
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 50
1712 - 1764
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 51
1797 - 1855
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 52
1707 - 1746
HPI: 54.89
Rank: 53
200 - 216
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 54
1671 - 1742
HPI: 53.98
Rank: 55
1889 - 1977
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 56
1672 - 1750
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 57