WRITER

Maria Valtorta

1897 - 1961

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Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was a Catholic Italian writer. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ. She lived much of her life bedridden in Viareggio in Tuscany where she died in 1961. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Valtorta has received more than 318,127 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Valtorta is the 1,648th most popular writer (down from 1,481st in 2019), the 1,735th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,573rd in 2019) and the 117th most popular Italian Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maria Valtorta ranks 1,648 out of 7,302. Before her are Constantijn Huygens, Andreas Gryphius, Al-Hariri of Basra, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Clodia Pulchra, and A. S. Byatt. After her are Theodore Sturgeon, Baba Tahir, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Li He, Liu Zongyuan, and Christy Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Maria Valtorta ranks 88. Before her are Tarjei Vesaas, Shoghi Effendi, Chen Cheng, Yuri Kondratyuk, Marcel Petiot, and Elijah Muhammad. After her are Arthur Greiser, Samuel Noah Kramer, Jesse Douglas, Manuel Ávila Camacho, Kurt Gerron, and Johann Rattenhuber. Among people deceased in 1961, Maria Valtorta ranks 32. Before her are Arthur Drewry, Wolfgang von Trips, Eero Saarinen, Mukhtar Auezov, Karl Korsch, and Zoltán Tildy. After her are Paul Wittgenstein, Princess Isabelle of Orléans, Mei Lanfang, Werner Jaeger, Margherita Sarfatti, and Gustav Ucicky.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Maria Valtorta ranks 1,735 out of 5,161. Before her are Ippolito de' Medici (1511), Alessandro Magnasco (1667), Paolo Tosti (1846), Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily (1779), Clodia Pulchra (-94), and Roberto Calvi (1920). After her are Vincenzo Montella (1974), Salvatore Ferragamo (1898), Praxedes (100), Rose of Viterbo (1233), Ansprand (657), and Pietro Bernini (1562).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Maria Valtorta ranks 117. Before her are Corax of Syracuse (-500), Giorgio Bassani (1916), Rafael Sabatini (1875), Pacuvius (-220), Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441), and Clodia Pulchra (-94). After her are Margherita Sarfatti (1880), Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377), Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538), Luigi Pulci (1432), Archestratus (-350), and Ippolita Maria Sforza (1446).

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