WRITER

Ludovico di Varthema

1470 - 1517

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Ludovico di Varthema, also known as Barthema and Vertomannus (c. 1470 – 1517), was an Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat known for being one of the first non-Muslim Europeans to enter Mecca as a pilgrim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludovico di Varthema has received more than 134,867 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ludovico di Varthema is the 2,370th most popular writer (up from 3,235th in 2019), the 2,297th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,715th in 2019) and the 157th most popular Italian Writer.

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  • 130k

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  • 61.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ludovico di Varthema ranks 2,370 out of 7,302. Before him are Luigi Illica, Frank McCourt, Ueda Akinari, William Auld, Ulf Stark, and António Vieira. After him are Dionysios Solomos, Leonard Woolf, Edith Hamilton, Cigerxwîn, Jonas Jonasson, and Pierre Souvestre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Ludovico di Varthema ranks 20. Before him are Lucrezia de' Medici, Tang Yin, João I of Kongo, Wen Zhengming, Fernando de Rojas, and Vincenzo Catena. After him are Gonzalo Guerrero, Marco Basaiti, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Bernardo Dovizi, Fernão de Loronha, and Willibald Pirckheimer. Among people deceased in 1517, Ludovico di Varthema ranks 17. Before him are Cima da Conegliano, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Francesco Francia, Badi' al-Zaman Mirza, Hadım Sinan Pasha, and Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples. After him are Yunus Pasha, and Sikandar Lodi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ludovico di Varthema ranks 2,297 out of 5,161. Before him are Alejandro Malaspina (1754), Luigi Illica (1857), Carlo Ruzzini (1653), Domenico Dragonetti (1763), Eduardo di Capua (1865), and Archduke Maximilian of Austria-Este (1782). After him are Ignazio La Russa (1947), Giuseppe Zanardelli (1826), Roberto Assagioli (1888), Paul-Émile Botta (1802), Albert Anastasia (1902), and Gaspard Dughet (1613).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Ludovico di Varthema ranks 157. Before him are Umberto Saba (1883), Indro Montanelli (1909), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1365), Tullia d'Aragona (1510), Salvadore Cammarano (1801), and Luigi Illica (1857). After him are Giovanni Pascoli (1855), Ugo Betti (1892), Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893), Giovanni de' Bardi (1534), Ottavio Rinuccini (1562), and Ada Negri (1870).

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