WRITER

Ottavio Rinuccini

1562 - 1621

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Ottavio Rinuccini (20 January 1562 – 28 March 1621) was an Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist at the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ottavio Rinuccini has received more than 39,211 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Ottavio Rinuccini is the 2,533rd most popular writer (down from 2,109th in 2019), the 2,426th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,053rd in 2019) and the 162nd most popular Italian Writer.

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Notable Works

Drammi musicali, ora per la prima volta insieme raccolti, ed accuratamente ripubblicati
Librettos, Opera
Il Narciso, favola in musica
La Dafne
Operas, Librettos
Poesie
Drammi per musica
L'Evridice

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ottavio Rinuccini ranks 2,533 out of 7,302Before him are Jung Chang, Heinz G. Konsalik, Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.. After him are Nima Yooshij, Mkhitar Sebastatsi, Na Hye-sok, Aristeas, Seichō Matsumoto, and Katherine Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1562, Ottavio Rinuccini ranks 11Before him are Xu Guangqi, Cornelis van Haarlem, Pietro Bernini, Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. After him are Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Isabella Andreini, John Bull, Adam van Noort, Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, and Bento de Góis. Among people deceased in 1621, Ottavio Rinuccini ranks 23Before him are Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, John Berchmans, Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, Jan Jesenius, and Hendrick de Keyser. After him are Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Pietro Aldobrandini, Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, Dirk Hartog, and Mary Sidney.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ottavio Rinuccini ranks 2,426 out of 5,161Before him are Alessandro Blasetti (1900), Pietro Lando (1462), Emma of Italy (null), Paolo Di Canio (1968), Giovanni Giocondo (1433), and Geki (1937). After him are Catherine of Valois–Courtenay (1301), Sergio Rossi (1935), Carlo Allioni (1728), Marco Rota (1942), Archduchess Maria Isabella of Austria (1834), and Franco Basaglia (1924).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Ottavio Rinuccini ranks 162Before him are Luigi Illica (1857), Ludovico di Varthema (1470), Giovanni Pascoli (1855), Ugo Betti (1892), Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893), and Giovanni de' Bardi (1534). After him are Ada Negri (1870), Duris of Samos (-340), Elio Vittorini (1908), Alda Merini (1931), Giuseppe Giacosa (1847), and Michele Ruggieri (1543).