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Giosuè Carducci

1835 - 1907

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Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giosuè Carducci has received more than 263,996 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 93 in 2019). Giosuè Carducci is the 653rd most popular writer (up from 663rd in 2019), the 787th most popular biography from Italy (up from 811th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Italian Writer.

Giosuè Carducci is most famous for his epic poem "Inno ai Dèi dell'Iliade" (Hymn to the Gods of the Iliad). He is also known for his translations of Homer's works.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giosuè Carducci ranks 653 out of 7,302Before him are Harriet Beecher Stowe, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Harper Lee, Martin Amis, Eugène Sue, and Ernest Thompson Seton. After him are Ryszard Kapuściński, Pietro Metastasio, Ursula K. Le Guin, Camilo José Cela, Washington Irving, and Frontinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Giosuè Carducci ranks 13Before him are Adolf von Baeyer, Andrew Carnegie, César Cui, Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Henryk Wieniawski. After him are William Stanley Jevons, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Josef Stefan, Eduard Strauss, and Demetrius Vikelas. Among people deceased in 1907, Giosuè Carducci ranks 11Before him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Oscar II of Sweden, Henri Moissan, Hector Malot, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Alfred Jarry. After him are Pierre Janssen, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Asaph Hall, Joseph Joachim, Jean Casimir-Perier, and Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giosuè Carducci ranks 787 out of 5,161Before him are Lorenzo Lotto (1480), Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (1248), Tancred, King of Sicily (1138), Milo of Croton (-557), Pope Benedict IV (860), and Maria Goretti (1890). After him are Faustina the Younger (125), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Lorenzo di Credi (1459), Jacopo Bellini (1396), Gian Galeazzo Sforza (1469), and Tiberius Claudius Nero (-85).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giosuè Carducci ranks 54Before him are Eugenio Montale (1896), Dino Buzzati (1906), Cassiodorus (487), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Poliziano (1454), and Curzio Malaparte (1898). After him are Pietro Metastasio (1698), Giambattista Basile (1566), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Francesca da Rimini (1259), Andrea Camilleri (1925), and Veronica Franco (1546).