WRITER

Giorgio Bassani

1916 - 2000

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Giorgio Bassani (Bologna, 4 March 1916 – Rome, 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giorgio Bassani has received more than 155,865 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Giorgio Bassani is the 1,583rd most popular writer (down from 1,518th in 2019), the 1,681st most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,611th in 2019) and the 112th most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

L' odore del fieno
1972
Dietro la porta
Jews, Fiction
1964
L'airone
Fiction
1968
Gli occhiali d'oro
Fiction, Italian fiction
1958
Il romanzo di Ferrara
1973
Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
Jews, Fiction, Jewish families
1962

Page views of Giorgio Bassanis by language

Over the past year Giorgio Bassani has had the most page views in the with 59,247 views, followed by English (18,191), and Spanish (8,305). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (951.72%), Egyptian Arabic (54.14%), and Latin (52.31%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giorgio Bassani ranks 1,583 out of 7,302. Before him are Ruth Rendell, Jean Chapelain, Alasdair Gray, Dean Koontz, Langston Hughes, and Alexander Polyhistor. After him are Mór Jókai, Lydia Koidula, Akiyuki Nosaka, Namık Kemal, Attila József, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Giorgio Bassani ranks 73. Before him are Ernst Wilimowski, Léo Ferré, Luis Corvalán, Bernard Blier, Betty Grable, and Zein Al-Sharaf Talal. After him are Archduke Felix of Austria, Pietro Rava, Mika Špiljak, Walt Whitman Rostow, Pérez Prado, and Ray Conniff. Among people deceased in 2000, Giorgio Bassani ranks 63. Before him are Friedrich Gulda, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Herta Bothe, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Loretta Young, and Heinz Harmel. After him are Hirokazu Ninomiya, Keizō Obuchi, Noboru Takeshita, Don Budge, Kemal Sunal, and Barbara Cartland.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giorgio Bassani ranks 1,681 out of 5,161. Before him are Eleanor of Sicily (1325), Pietro Germi (1914), Gianna Beretta Molla (1922), Giuseppe Sammartini (1695), Maria Celeste (1600), and Irene Camber (1926). After him are Lucius Licinius Crassus (-140), Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1441), Henry Benedict Stuart (1725), Walter Mazzarri (1961), Nicola Romeo (1876), and Jacopo Riccati (1676).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giorgio Bassani ranks 112. Before him are Thomas of Celano (1185), Jacopo Sannazaro (1458), Catherine of Bologna (1413), Asconius Pedianus (-9), Giovannino Guareschi (1908), and Corax of Syracuse (-500). After him are Rafael Sabatini (1875), Pacuvius (-220), Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441), Clodia Pulchra (-94), Maria Valtorta (1897), and Margherita Sarfatti (1880).

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