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Gil Vicente

1465 - 1536

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Gil Vicente (Portuguese: [ˈʒil viˈsẽtɨ]; c. 1465 – c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gil Vicente is the 1,684th most popular writer (down from 1,493rd in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Portugal (down from 127th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Portuguese Writer.

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Among writers, Gil Vicente ranks 1,684 out of 7,302. Before him are James Oliver Curwood, Akiyuki Nosaka, Vita Sackville-West, Varro Atacinus, Lina Kostenko, and Ahmed Shawqi. After him are Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Ryū Murakami, Jacopo Sannazaro, Anne Desclos, Michael Cunningham, and Mahadevi Varma.

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Among people born in 1465, Gil Vicente ranks 8. Before him are Hans Holbein the Elder, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Scipione del Ferro, Kunigunde of Austria, Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, and Mehmed I Giray. After him are Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Jan Provoost, Bramantino, Shō Shin, and Ashikaga Yoshihisa. Among people deceased in 1536, Gil Vicente ranks 14. Before him are Germaine of Foix, Francis III, Duke of Brittany, John of Leiden, William Tyndale, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Cecilia Gallerani. After him are Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Ibn Kemal, Felice della Rovere, Jacob Hutter, Juan Pizarro, and Gonzalo Guerrero.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Gil Vicente ranks 152 out of 633. Before him are Sidónio Pais (1872), Urraca of Portugal (1150), Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu (1430), Vítor Baía (1969), Karl Nesselrode (1780), and Manuel Gomes da Costa (1863). After him are Infanta Antónia of Portugal (1845), Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1938), Ferdinand, Count of Flanders (1188), Álvaro Cunhal (1913), Cristóvão Ferreira (1580), and Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (1499).

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Among WRITERS In Portugal

Among writers born in Portugal, Gil Vicente ranks 8. Before him are Fernando Pessoa (1888), Luís de Camões (1524), Denis of Portugal (1261), Judah Leon Abravanel (1460), Luís Fróis (1532), and José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845). After him are João de Barros (1496), Almeida Garrett (1799), Francisco de Sá de Miranda (1491), Tomé Pires (1468), António Vieira (1608), and Camilo Castelo Branco (1825).

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