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Poliziano

Italian classical scholar and poet

1454 - 1494

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His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2024). Poliziano is the 626th most popular writer (down from 623rd in 2024), the 794th most popular biography from Italy (down from 746th in 2019) and the 49th 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.

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#7,289

More than 5 centuries after death, Poliziano still holds rank #7,289 among all individuals in Pantheon.

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Poliziano's biography appears in 37 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 82% of all Writers.

Jul 14

Poliziano shares a July 14 birthday with Gustav Klimt, Ingmar Bergman, and Cardinal Mazarin.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Poliziano ranks 626 out of 7,302. Before him are Raymond Queneau, Han Kang, Theodore Dreiser, Joan Fuster, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Francisco de Quevedo. After him are Patricia Highsmith, Franz Werfel, André Chénier, Kumārajīva, Gabriele Amorth, and Kōbō Abe.

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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 Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples, and Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania. 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, Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany, and Giosafat Barbaro.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Poliziano ranks 794 out of 5,161. Before him are Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429), Andrea Pisano (1290), Francesco Hayez (1791), Tancred, King of Sicily (1138), Piero di Cosimo (1462), and Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples (1937). After him are Lentulus Batiatus (-200), Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751), Charles Ponzi (1882), Jacopo Bellini (1396), Gian Galeazzo Sforza (1469), and Tarcisius (263).

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Among Writers In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Poliziano ranks 49. Before him are Edmondo De Amicis (1846), Tibullus (-50), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Dino Buzzati (1906), Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), and Aulus Gellius (123). After him are Gabriele Amorth (1925), Giambattista Basile (1566), Eugenio Montale (1896), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Francesca da Rimini (1259), and Gaius Valerius Flaccus (45).

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