WRITER

Rafael Sabatini

1875 - 1950

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Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels. He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk (1915), Scaramouche (1921), Captain Blood (a.k.a. Captain Blood: His Odyssey) (1922), and Bellarion the Fortunate (1926). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rafael Sabatini has received more than 361,130 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Rafael Sabatini is the 1,597th most popular writer (up from 1,628th in 2019), the 1,692nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,711th in 2019) and the 113th most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rafael Sabatini ranks 1,597 out of 7,302. Before him are Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Arnaldur Indriðason, Natalie Clifford Barney, Yaşar Kemal, and Mário de Andrade. After him are Robert Faurisson, Jan Guillou, David Albahari, Charles Paul de Kock, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, and Chikamatsu Monzaemon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Rafael Sabatini ranks 51. Before him are Ludwig Prandtl, Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, Qiu Jin, Hiram Bingham III, Fatali Khan Khoyski, and Franz Xaver Schwarz. After him are Walter Chrysler, Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, Maurice de Broglie, Issai Schur, Leonardo De Lorenzo, and Shaul Tchernichovsky. Among people deceased in 1950, Rafael Sabatini ranks 54. Before him are Jan Smuts, Charles Koechlin, Salvatore Giuliano, Adam Rainer, Grigory Kulik, and Liane de Pougy. After him are Alfred Korzybski, Alma Karlin, Agnes Smedley, Kim Kyu-sik, Henry H. Arnold, and Walter Huston.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Rafael Sabatini ranks 1,692 out of 5,161. Before him are Nicola Romeo (1876), Jacopo Riccati (1676), Domenico Fetti (1589), Amadeus III, Count of Savoy (1095), Ratchis (800), and Hermocrates (-500). After him are Hieronymus Fabricius (1533), Palma il Giovane (1548), Lippo Memmi (1291), Nino Manfredi (1921), Galileo Ferraris (1847), and Agnolo Gaddi (1350).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Rafael Sabatini ranks 113. Before him are Jacopo Sannazaro (1458), Catherine of Bologna (1413), Asconius Pedianus (-9), Giovannino Guareschi (1908), Corax of Syracuse (-500), and Giorgio Bassani (1916). After him are Pacuvius (-220), Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441), Clodia Pulchra (-94), Maria Valtorta (1897), Margherita Sarfatti (1880), and Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377).

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