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Polydore Vergil

1470 - 1555

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Polydore Vergil or Virgil (Italian: Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius; c. 1470 – 18 April 1555), widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England. He is particularly remembered for his works the Proverbiorum libellus (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; De inventoribus rerum (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the Anglica Historia (drafted by 1513; printed in 1534), an influential history of England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Polydore Vergil has received more than 163,694 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Polydore Vergil is the 4,336th most popular writer (down from 3,995th in 2019), the 3,229th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,930th in 2019) and the 234th most popular Italian Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.50

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Polydore Vergil ranks 4,336 out of 5,755. Before him are Jane Wilde, R. J. Palacio, Feodor Gladkov, Constantin Negruzzi, Hanna Krall, and Yuri Bondarev. After him are Bob Shaw, Mirjam Pressler, Kamala Surayya, Vittorio Messori, Chaim Potok, and John Mawe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Polydore Vergil ranks 23. Before him are Vincenzo Catena, João I of Kongo, Wen Zhengming, Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Marco Basaiti, and Ludovico di Varthema.  Among people deceased in 1555, Polydore Vergil ranks 22. Before him are Gemma Frisius, Luis de Narváez, Jan Mostaert, Justus Jonas, Hugh Latimer, and Stephen Gardiner. After him is Nicholas Ridley.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Polydore Vergil ranks 3,229 out of 4,668. Before him are Consalvo Sanesi (1911), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (1968), Giovanni Giorgi (1871), Stefano Benni (1947), Camillo Caccia Dominioni (1877), and Massimiliano Fuksas (1944). After him are Carlo Ceresoli (1910), Debora Caprioglio (1968), Andrea Riccardi (1950), Vittorio Messori (1941), Antonio Janigro (1918), and Ottavio Bianchi (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Polydore Vergil ranks 234. Before him are Cesare Balbo (1789), Vincenzo Monti (1754), Lucrezia Marinella (1571), Gabriello Chiabrera (1552), Susanna Tamaro (1957), and Stefano Benni (1947). After him are Vittorio Messori (1941), Roberto Saviano (1979), Andrea Maffei (1798), Angelo de Gubernatis (1840), Giovanni Berchet (1783), and Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719).

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