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WRITER

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 33,525 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vincenzo Monti is the 4,225th most popular writer (down from 3,977th in 2019), the 3,174th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,926th in 2019) and the 229th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vincenzo Monti ranks 4,225 out of 5,755Before him are Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, Andrej Sládkovič, E. E. Smith, Andreï Makine, Marek Hłasko, and İbrahim Şinasi. After him are Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Jean-Richard Bloch, Vera Panova, Oksana Zabuzhko, Christiane Amanpour, and René Wellek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Vincenzo Monti ranks 42Before him are Louis Claude Richard, Peter Winter, Banastre Tarleton, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Ivan Martos, and Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. After him are Anna Maria Lenngren, Juan José Elhuyar, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Hipólito Ruiz López, George Crabbe, and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez. Among people deceased in 1828, Vincenzo Monti ranks 31Before him are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Jean-Joseph, Marquis Dessolles, Gilbert Stuart, Samuel Frederick Gray, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Christian August Lorentzen. After him are Thomas Bewick, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Rachel Jackson, Johann Christoph Wendland, Félix de Avelar Brotero, and DeWitt Clinton.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Monti ranks 3,174 out of 4,668Before him are Claudio Marchisio (1986), Nilla Pizzi (1919), Graziano Rossi (1954), Angelo Anquilletti (1943), Giuseppe Merisi (1938), and Ivan Capelli (1963). After him are Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845), Antipope Theodoric (1100), Lucrezia Marinella (1571), Giuseppe Caprio (1914), Michele Tenore (1780), and Gabriello Chiabrera (1552).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Vincenzo Monti ranks 229Before him are Giuseppe Adami (1878), Antonio Fogazzaro (1842), Ippolito Nievo (1831), Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1927), Laura Cereta (1469), and Cesare Balbo (1789). After him are Lucrezia Marinella (1571), Gabriello Chiabrera (1552), Susanna Tamaro (1957), Stefano Benni (1947), Polydore Vergil (1470), and Vittorio Messori (1941).