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Matteo Bandello

1484 - 1561

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Matteo Bandello (c. 1480–1562) was an Italian writer, soldier, Dominican friar and bishop, known mostly for his novellas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matteo Bandello has received more than 130,808 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Matteo Bandello is the 1,179th most popular writer (down from 1,163rd in 2019), the 1,285th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,259th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Italian Writer.

Matteo Bandello is most famous for his novel, "The Novels of Matteo Bandello," which was published in 1554.

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  • 130k

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  • 59.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Matteo Bandello ranks 1,179 out of 5,755. Before him are Sophia Tolstaya, Léon Werth, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Chinua Achebe, and Arthur Hailey. After him are Tove Ditlevsen, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Kassia, Edith Södergran, Thomas De Quincey, and Gottfried Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1484, Matteo Bandello ranks 10. Before him are Anne of Foix-Candale, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Sebastian Cabot, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. After him are George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Michele Sanmicheli, Pedro Mascarenhas, Jón Arason, Pedro de Toledo y Zúñiga, and Il Pordenone. Among people deceased in 1561, Matteo Bandello ranks 6. Before him are Şehzade Bayezid, Rüstem Pasha, Gülfem Hatun, Lope de Aguirre, and Menno Simons. After him are Claude Garamond, Bairam Khan, Sayri Túpac, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, and Yamamoto Kansuke.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Matteo Bandello ranks 1,285 out of 4,668. Before him are Giovanni Segantini (1858), Saverio Mercadante (1795), Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501), Cristofano Allori (1577), Cosimo Tura (1430), and Lorenzo Costa (1460). After him are Methodios I of Constantinople (788), Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg (1810), Marcello Gandini (1938), Andrea Luchesi (1741), Mario Bava (1914), and Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Matteo Bandello ranks 90. Before him are Veronica Franco (1546), Guido Cavalcanti (1258), Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427), Gaius Asinius Pollio (-76), Giambattista Marino (1569), and Odoric of Pordenone (1286). After him are Gabriele Amorth (1925), Claudio Magris (1939), Timaeus of Locri (-200), Giovanni Papini (1881), Cornelius Gallus (-69), and Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254).

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