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Giovanni Papini

1881 - 1956

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Giovanni Papini (9 January 1881 – 8 July 1956) was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Papini is the 1,285th most popular writer (down from 1,172nd in 2019), the 1,421st most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,295th in 2019) and the 97th most popular Italian Writer.

Giovanni Papini is most famous for his autobiographical novel, "The Life of Christ."

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Among writers, Giovanni Papini ranks 1,285 out of 7,302. Before him are Theodor Storm, Hugo Gernsback, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Ellen Key, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Georges Rodenbach. After him are Ono no Komachi, Alcman, Ibn al-Nadim, Pierre Larousse, Kurt Tucholsky, and Blaise de Vigenère.

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Among people born in 1881, Giovanni Papini ranks 58. Before him are P. G. Wodehouse, Artur Phleps, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Ludwig Binswanger, Hakaru Hashimoto, and Kim Kyu-sik. After him are Franz Gürtner, Victor Klemperer, Max Pechstein, Günther Quandt, Vincenzo Peruggia, and Augustin Bea. Among people deceased in 1956, Giovanni Papini ranks 50. Before him are Juan Negrín, Marie Laurencin, Harold Bride, Mistinguett, Alben W. Barkley, and Gottfried Benn. After him are David Seymour, Chandrashekhar Agashe, Savielly Tartakower, Erich Kleiber, Pío Baroja, and Hiram Bingham III.

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Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Papini ranks 1,421 out of 5,161. Before him are Galeria Valeria (300), Tatiana of Rome (200), Saint Susanna (280), Norberto Bobbio (1909), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), and Cosimo Tura (1430). After him are Alessandro Costacurta (1966), Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duchess of Berry (1798), Marco Ferreri (1928), Francesco Durante (1684), Saint Marcella (325), and Saint Chrysogonus (250).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giovanni Papini ranks 97. Before him are Chiara Lubich (1920), Vladimir Bartol (1903), Asconius Pedianus (-9), Matteo Bandello (1484), Cornelius Gallus (-69), and Vittorio Alfieri (1749). After him are Odoric of Pordenone (1286), Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), Clodia Pulchra (-94), Giovanni Verga (1840), Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441), and Boris Pahor (1913).

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