WRITER

Giambattista Marino

1569 - 1625

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Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625) was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic L'Adone. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giambattista Marino has received more than 104,872 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Giambattista Marino is the 1,050th most popular writer (up from 1,140th in 2019), the 1,190th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,252nd in 2019) and the 86th most popular Italian Writer.

Giambattista Marino was a poet and novelist from Naples, Italy. He is most famous for his epic poem "Adone" which tells the story of Adonis, a beautiful young man who falls in love with Venus.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Opere scelte di Giovan Battista Marino e dei Marinisti
Italian poetry, Collections
1954
La sampogna
1620
Il tempio
1615
Epithalami
1616
La lira
1629
L' Adone
1623

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giambattista Marino ranks 1,050 out of 7,302. Before him are Michel Tournier, Thomas Malory, Emil Ludwig, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Paul Bourget, and Emanuel Schikaneder. After him are Henri Troyat, Tess Gerritsen, Ján Kollár, Martin Andersen Nexø, Zhuanxu, and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1569, Giambattista Marino ranks 3. Before him are Jahangir, and Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquess of Balbases. After him are Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Yodo-dono, Frans Pourbus the Younger, Friedrich Kettler, Heo Gyun, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, and Antonio Marcello Barberini. Among people deceased in 1625, Giambattista Marino ranks 10. Before him are Maurice, Prince of Orange, Johann Bayer, Willem Schouten, Simon Marius, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, and Duchess Anna of Prussia. After him are Mōri Terumoto, Anna Vasa of Sweden, Honoré d'Urfé, Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lerma, Orlando Gibbons, and Hans Rottenhammer.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giambattista Marino ranks 1,190 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Rosi (1922), Umberto Tozzi (1952), Pier Angeli (1932), Giovanni Sartori (1924), Francis IV, Duke of Modena (1779), and Methodios I of Constantinople (788). After him are Raf Vallone (1916), Giuseppe Castiglione (1688), Paolo Gentiloni (1954), Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal (1589), Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany (1663), and Enzo Bearzot (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giambattista Marino ranks 86. Before him are Rustichello da Pisa (1290), Chiara Lubich (1920), Quintus Tullius Cicero (-102), Vladimir Bartol (1903), Guido Cavalcanti (1258), and Persius (34). After him are Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Elsa Morante (1912), Gaius Valerius Flaccus (45), Cornelius Gallus (-69), Giovanni Papini (1881), and Francesco Maria Piave (1810).

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