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Pietro Della Valle

1586 - 1652

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Pietro Della Valle (Latin: Petrus a Valle; 2 April 1586 – 21 April 1652), also written Pietro della Valle, was an Italian composer, musicologist, and author who travelled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pietro Della Valle has received more than 120,452 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pietro Della Valle is the 342nd most popular composer (down from 313th in 2019), the 1,475th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,318th in 2019) and the 70th most popular Italian Composer.

Pietro della Valle was a 16th century Italian traveler who wrote about his travels in Persia, India, and the Ottoman Empire.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Pietro Della Valle ranks 342 out of 1,451. Before him are Christian Gottlob Neefe, Antonio Soler, Giovanni Bottesini, Georg Benda, Viktor Ullmann, and Johann Schein. After him are Hans Leo Hassler, Frank Martin, György Kurtág, Louis Marchand, Elmer Bernstein, and Sergei Taneyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1586, Pietro Della Valle ranks 5. Before him are Rose of Lima, Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, Johannes Valentinus Andreae, and Johann Schein. After him are Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, Théophraste Renaudot, Jan Wildens, Pau Claris i Casademunt, Niccolò Zucchi, and John Ford. Among people deceased in 1652, Pietro Della Valle ranks 6. Before him are Jusepe de Ribera, Georges de La Tour, Gregorio Allegri, Jacob De la Gardie, and John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg. After him are Inigo Jones, Jan Asselijn, Jan Dirksz Both, Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, Denis Pétau, and Johann von Werth.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Della Valle ranks 1,475 out of 5,161. Before him are Eugenia of Rome (180), Ugolino della Gherardesca (1220), Primo Carnera (1906), Veronica Giuliani (1660), Lucio Fulci (1927), and Philip I, Prince of Taranto (1278). After him are Maria Teresa of Savoy (1803), Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837), Cecilia Gallerani (1473), Benedict the Moor (1526), Giovanni Lanfranco (1582), and Carlo Levi (1902).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Pietro Della Valle ranks 70. Before him are Leonardo Leo (1694), Francesco Cilea (1866), Giovanni Bononcini (1670), Saverio Mercadante (1795), Ferdinando Carulli (1770), and Giovanni Bottesini (1821). After him are Luca Marenzio (1553), Alfredo Casella (1883), Domenico Zipoli (1688), Alfredo Catalani (1854), Giovanni Battista Bassani (1650), and Claudio Merulo (1533).

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