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Poliziano

1454 - 1494

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Agnolo (or Angelo) Ambrogini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaɲɲolo ambroˈdʒiːni]; 14 July 1454 – 24 September 1494), commonly known as Angelo Poliziano (Italian: [ˈandʒelo politˈtsjaːno]) or simply Poliziano, anglicized as Politian, was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance. His scholarship was instrumental in the divergence of Renaissance (or Humanist) Latin from medieval norms and for developments in philology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Poliziano has received more than 227,296 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Poliziano is the 624th most popular writer (up from 630th in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from Italy (up from 788th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Italian Writer.

Pietro Bembo, also known as Poliziano, was a humanist, poet, and scholar who was the secretary to Lorenzo de Medici. He is most famous for his translation of the Divine Comedy from Latin to Italian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

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  • 65.34

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rime
1822
Letters
2006
Poesie italiane di Messer Angelo Poliziano
1825
Commento inedito alle Georgiche di Virgilio
1990
Commento inedito alle Satire di Persio
Renaissance
1985
Stanze cominciate per la giostra del Magnifico Giuliano de Medici
1821

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Poliziano ranks 624 out of 7,302. Before him are Louisa May Alcott, Émile Verhaeren, Leo Africanus, Tirso de Molina, Alfred Döblin, and J. M. Barrie. After him are Mihai Eminescu, Zecharia Sitchin, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, Ludwig Tieck, and Nikolay Chernyshevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1454, Poliziano ranks 4. Before him are Amerigo Vespucci, Pinturicchio, and Catherine Cornaro. After him are Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, and Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples. Among people deceased in 1494, Poliziano ranks 5. Before him are Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Hans Memling, and Ferdinand I of Naples. After him are Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Melozzo da Forlì, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Muhammad XIII of Granada, Yuriy Drohobych, Giosafat Barbaro, and Giovanni Santi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Poliziano ranks 746 out of 5,161. Before him are Antonio Negri (1933), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485), Pope Leo VI (914), Pope Vigilius (500), Joachim of Fiore (1135), and Pope Felix IV (480). After him are Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Rosso Fiorentino (1494), Luca della Robbia (1399), Emilio Segrè (1905), Atia (-85), and Vincenzo Galilei (1520).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Poliziano ranks 52. Before him are Aulus Gellius (123), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Eugenio Montale (1896), Dino Buzzati (1906), Cassiodorus (487), and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896). After him are Curzio Malaparte (1898), Giosuè Carducci (1835), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Giambattista Basile (1566), Carlo Gozzi (1720), and Francesca da Rimini (1259).

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