WRITER

Ugo Foscolo

1778 - 1827

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Ugo Foscolo (Italian: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo, fɔs-]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was a Greek-Italian writer, revolutionary and poet.He is especially remembered for his 1807 long poem Dei Sepolcri. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ugo Foscolo has received more than 277,497 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Ugo Foscolo is the 1,170th most popular writer (down from 1,138th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from Greece (down from 260th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Greek Writer.

Ugo Foscolo is most famous for his poem "Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis."

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

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  • 60.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Vestigi della storia del sonetto italiano dall'anno MCC al MDCCC
1993
I sepolcri
1900
Opere edite e postume
1850
Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
1887
Didymi clerici prophetæ minimi hypercalypseos liber singularis
1815
Last letters of Jacopo Ortis ; and, Of tombs
Fiction
Written as an epistolary monologue, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is a compelling portrayal of a troubled mind. Published here for the first time in the English language, it is presented with Foscolo's highly acclaimed poem, Of Tombs. Banished from his homeland and from the woman he loves, Jacopo Ortis lives with the insufferable feelings of disillusionment and betrayal. Gone are his youthful dreams of literary glory, and in their place only his embittered laughter at fortune, at men, and at God. In the anguish of his state he feels himself compelled to make one final, titanic, and tragic gesture to the rulers of his age.
2002

Page views of Ugo Foscolos by language

Over the past year Ugo Foscolo has had the most page views in the with 237,011 views, followed by English (29,782), and Spanish (7,459). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (78.63%), Urdu (76.09%), and Basque (68.17%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ugo Foscolo ranks 1,170 out of 7,302. Before him are Sankardev, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Gottfried Benn, Mercè Rodoreda, Polyaenus, and Bāṇabhaṭṭa. After him are E. Howard Hunt, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Giovanni Papini, Francesco Maria Piave, Sadriddin Ayni, and Joachim du Bellay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Ugo Foscolo ranks 17. Before him are Fernando Sor, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Clemens Brentano, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, and Coenraad Jacob Temminck. After him are Kittur Chennamma, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Carl Ludvig Engel, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Beau Brummell, and Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1827, Ugo Foscolo ranks 11. Before him are William Blake, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Wilhelm Hauff, Maria Theresa of Austria, and George Canning. After him are Ernst Chladni, Samuel Crompton, Wilhelm Müller, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Georgios Karaiskakis, and Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Ugo Foscolo ranks 271 out of 1,024. Before him are Rigas Feraios (1757), George Maniakes (998), Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark (1872), Vicky Leandros (1949), Theodore Komnenos Doukas (1180), and Agis II (-490). After him are Alexandros Papagos (1883), Cyril Lucaris (1572), Euphronios (-520), Cylon of Athens (-700), Theaetetus (-417), and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark (1870).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Ugo Foscolo ranks 33. Before him are Aristarchus of Samothrace (-217), Corinna (-501), Jean Moréas (1856), Agathon (-448), Lycophron (-320), and Rigas Feraios (1757). After him are Cratinus (-500), Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger (1062), Phrynichus (-535), Semonides of Amorgos (-650), Diagoras of Melos (-450), and Laonikos Chalkokondyles (1423).

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