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Michele Amari

1806 - 1889

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Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari (7 July 1806 in Palermo – 16 July 1889 in Florence) was a Sicilian patriot, liberal revolutionary and politician of aristocratic background, historian and orientalist. He rose to prominence as a champion of Sicilian independence from the Neapolitan Bourbon rule when he published his history of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1842. He was a minister in the Sicilian revolutionary government of 1848–9 and in Garibaldi's revolutionary cabinet in Sicily in 1860. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michele Amari has received more than 30,565 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Michele Amari is the 371st most popular historian (down from 309th in 2019), the 3,415th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,079th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Michele Amari ranks 371 out of 561. Before him are Efraim Zuroff, Pierre Chaunu, Jan T. Gross, Jacob Theodor Klein, Patricia Crone, and Donald Kagan. After him are Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Richard N. Frye, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Artur Hazelius, Mikhail Artamonov, and Minhaj-i-Siraj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Michele Amari ranks 44. Before him are Julius Weisbach, Friedrich Welwitsch, Stand Watie, Fabre Geffrard, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, and Georg Adolf Erman. After him are Ivan Kireyevsky, Julius Hübner, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, Matthew Fontaine Maury, George Newbold Lawrence, and Émile Souvestre. Among people deceased in 1889, Michele Amari ranks 68. Before him are Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Domingo Santa María, Gustav Lange, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, August Ahlqvist, and José Joaquín Pérez. After him are Gerard Manley Hopkins, Juan Montalvo, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Warren De la Rue, and Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michele Amari ranks 3,415 out of 5,161. Before him are Ivano Bordon (1951), Paolo Soleri (1919), Pietro Palazzini (1912), Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (-1), Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus (-300), and Fortunato Baldelli (1935). After him are Rudolph Schadow (1786), Vannoccio Biringuccio (1480), Mario Perazzolo (1911), Massimiliano Fuksas (1944), Lamberto Gardelli (1915), and Enzo Robotti (1935).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Michele Amari ranks 24. Before him are Festus (390), Annius of Viterbo (1437), Marino Sanuto the Younger (1466), Filippo Baldinucci (1625), Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (-200), and Girolamo Mei (1519). After him are Andrea Riccardi (1950), Dino Compagni (1255), and Alessandro Barbero (1959).

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