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Vincenzo Monti

1754 - 1828

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Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the Iliad is considered one of the greatest of them all, with its iconic opening ("Cantami, o Diva, del Pelide Achille l'ira funesta", lib. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincenzo Monti has received more than 37,991 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Vincenzo Monti is the 4,781st most popular writer (down from 4,212th in 2019), the 3,565th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,164th in 2019) and the 245th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vincenzo Monti ranks 4,781 out of 7,302Before him are Xaviera Hollander, Anna Enquist, Axel Bakunts, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Roger Vitrac, and Mirjam Pressler. After him are Yann Martel, John D. MacDonald, Florence Delay, Michel Déon, Henrik Nordbrandt, and Alina Fernández.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Vincenzo Monti ranks 46Before him are Grace Elliott, Banastre Tarleton, Ivan Martos, Juan José Elhuyar, Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito. After him are Anna Maria Lenngren, Wilhelm, Duke of Oldenburg, Hipólito Ruiz López, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Alexander Shishkov, and George Crabbe. Among people deceased in 1828, Vincenzo Monti ranks 39Before him are Michael von Kienmayer, Manuel Dorrego, Anne Seymour Damer, Thomas Bewick, Rachel Jackson, and Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. After him are Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Johann Christoph Wendland, Félix de Avelar Brotero, DeWitt Clinton, Dugald Stewart, and John Oxley.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Monti ranks 3,565 out of 5,161Before him are Fausto Acke (1897), Sergio Amidei (1904), Liberius (465), Valentina Nappi (1990), Guido Marini (1965), and Stefano Gabbana (1962). After him are Salvatore De Giorgi (1930), Giorgio Albertazzi (1923), Vittorio De Seta (1923), Giovanni Battaglin (1951), Giovanni Micheletto (1889), and Carlo Cudicini (1973).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Vincenzo Monti ranks 245Before him are Roberto Saviano (1979), Mario Rigoni Stern (1921), Piero Angela (1928), Alfredo Panzini (1863), Elisabetta Dami (1958), and Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1927). After him are Gabriello Chiabrera (1552), Andrea Maffei (1798), Vittorio Messori (1941), Vitaliano Brancati (1907), Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani (1719), and Giovanni Berchet (1783).