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Jacopone da Todi

1236 - 1306

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Jacopone da Todi (c. 1230 – 25 December 1306) was an Italian Franciscan friar from Umbria. He wrote several laude (songs in praise of the Lord) in the local vernacular. He was an early pioneer in Italian theatre, being one of the earliest scholars who dramatised Gospel subjects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacopone da Todi is the 1,723rd most popular writer (up from 2,050th in 2019), the 1,812th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,058th in 2019) and the 119th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Jacopone da Todi ranks 1,723 out of 7,302. Before him are Giorgio Bassani, Frederic W. H. Myers, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Camilla Läckberg, and Antoine de Montchrestien. After him are Marlen Haushofer, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Theodor Nöldeke, Ahmad ibn Arabshah, Shen Yue, and Boris Akunin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1236, Jacopone da Todi ranks 7. Before him are Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Violant of Aragon, Chungnyeol of Goryeo, Leo II, King of Armenia, and Wen Tianxiang. After him are Stephen the Posthumous, and Lu Xiufu. Among people deceased in 1306, Jacopone da Todi ranks 4. Before him are Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Khutulun, and Robert II, Duke of Burgundy. After him is Araniko.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Jacopone da Todi ranks 1,812 out of 5,161. Before him are Giorgio Bassani (1916), Eugenio Castellotti (1930), Ida Dalser (1880), Pietro Germi (1914), Guarino da Verona (1374), and Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily (1804). After him are Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet (1588), Giuditta Pasta (1797), Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595), Camillo Ruini (1931), Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona (1542), and Federico Faggin (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Jacopone da Todi ranks 119. Before him are Bartolomeo Platina (1421), Margherita Sarfatti (1880), Jacopo Sannazaro (1458), Enzo of Sardinia (1220), Rafael Sabatini (1875), and Giorgio Bassani (1916). After him are Julius Firmicus Maternus (400), Moschus (-200), Thomas of Celano (1185), Gaius Julius Solinus (400), Giovannino Guareschi (1908), and Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377).

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