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Umberto Saba

1883 - 1957

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Umberto Saba (9 March 1883 – 25 August 1957) was an Italian poet and novelist, born Umberto Poli in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean port of Trieste when it was the fourth largest city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Poli assumed the pen name "Saba" in 1910, and his name was officially changed to Umberto Saba in 1928. From 1919 he was the proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop in Trieste. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Umberto Saba has received more than 110,881 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Umberto Saba is the 2,263rd most popular writer (down from 2,188th in 2019), the 2,228th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,089th in 2019) and the 151st most popular Italian Writer.

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  • 61.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Umberto Saba ranks 2,263 out of 7,302. Before him are Édouard Drumont, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Alois Jirásek, Inger Christensen, and Saigyō. After him are Jeppe Aakjær, Konstantin Balmont, Andrey Kurkov, Patrick Pearse, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, and Đura Jakšić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Umberto Saba ranks 99. Before him are Henk Sneevliet, Dmitry Manuilsky, Rudolf Weigl, Rudolf Spielmann, Isaak Brodsky, and Richard Gerstl. After him are Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, Eugen Ritter von Schobert, Nikolaos Plastiras, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Marie Under, and Riccardo Zandonai. Among people deceased in 1957, Umberto Saba ranks 89. Before him are Álvaro Gestido, Rudolf Schmidt, Sholem Asch, Prince Franz of Bavaria, Rudolf Weigl, and Wilhelm Filchner. After him are Paja Jovanović, Gheorghe Tătărescu, Heinrich Bär, Albert Anastasia, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Claude Farrère.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Umberto Saba ranks 2,228 out of 5,161. Before him are Gaétan Vestris (1729), Vulca (-600), Luigi Allemandi (1903), Antonio Juliano (1943), Massimo Troisi (1953), and Gaius Cassius Longinus Varus (-115). After him are Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria (1747), Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880), Federico Borromeo (1564), Matteo I Visconti (1250), Prospero Colonna (1452), and Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria (1823).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Umberto Saba ranks 151. Before him are Hermas (150), Goffredo Mameli (1827), Dacia Maraini (1936), Frédéric Ozanam (1813), Felice Romani (1788), and Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark (1939). After him are Indro Montanelli (1909), Niccolò de' Niccoli (1365), Tullia d'Aragona (1510), Salvadore Cammarano (1801), Luigi Illica (1857), and Ludovico di Varthema (1470).

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