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Pliny the Younger

61 - 113

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Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 – c. 113), better known as Pliny the Younger (), was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder, helped raise and educate him. Pliny the Younger wrote hundreds of letters, of which 247 survived, and which are of great historical value. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pliny the Younger has received more than 1,862,290 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Pliny the Younger is the 172nd most popular writer (down from 156th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Italy (down from 216th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Writer.

Pliny the Younger is most famous for his letters, which were written to his friend and mentor, Pliny the Elder. In these letters, he discusses the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder.

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Notable Works

The letters of the younger Pliny
Correspondence, Latin letters, Translations into English
1734
Epistolae et panegyricus
Accessible book
1653
The letters of Pliny the consul
Correspondence, Latin letters, Translations into English
1747
Selected letters of Pliny
Correspondence, Accessible book
1878
C. Plinii Cæcilii Secundi Epistolæ et Panegyricus
Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek, Latin literature
1677
Letters
Correspondence, Translations into English, Latin letters
1890

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pliny the Younger ranks 172 out of 7,302. Before him are Ivan Turgenev, H. G. Wells, Pindar, Yasunari Kawabata, Orhan Pamuk, and Karel Čapek. After him are François-René de Chateaubriand, Wisława Szymborska, Taras Shevchenko, Luigi Pirandello, Svetlana Alexievich, and J. D. Salinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 61, Pliny the Younger ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 113, Pliny the Younger ranks 1. After him is Yamato Takeru.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pliny the Younger ranks 245 out of 5,161. Before him are Sergio Leone (1929), Arcangelo Corelli (1653), Pope Clement XIV (1705), Pope Nicholas V (1397), Pope Innocent XIII (1655), and Pope Pelagius II (520). After him are Pope Alexander VIII (1610), Pope Leo I (390), Cesare Lombroso (1835), Pope John XV (1000), Diodorus Siculus (-90), and Cimabue (1240).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Pliny the Younger ranks 15. Before him are Giorgio Vasari (1511), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880), Plautus (-254), Cato the Elder (-243), Carlo Collodi (1826), and Catullus (-84). After him are Luigi Pirandello (1867), Juvenal (50), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), Dario Fo (1926), and Sallust (-86).

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