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Maria Valtorta

1897 - 1961

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Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was a Catholic Italian writer. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ. She lived much of her life bedridden in Viareggio in Tuscany where she died in 1961. She is buried at the Basilica of Santissima Annunziata in Florence. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Valtorta is the 1,652nd most popular writer (down from 1,647th in 2019), the 1,746th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,735th in 2019) and the 112th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Maria Valtorta ranks 1,652 out of 7,302. Before her are John Gay, Hassan ibn Thabit, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Ildefonsus, and Attila József. After her are Quintus Smyrnaeus, Malcolm Lowry, Andreas Gryphius, Adèle Hugo, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, and E. Howard Hunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Maria Valtorta ranks 98. Before her are Shoghi Effendi, Johann Rattenhuber, Chen Cheng, Husni al-Za'im, Jesse Douglas, and Manuel Ávila Camacho. After her are Fredric March, Elijah Muhammad, Kurt Gerron, Josep Pla, Karol Świerczewski, and Otto Struve. Among people deceased in 1961, Maria Valtorta ranks 38. Before her are Paul Wittgenstein, Karl Korsch, Zoltán Tildy, Mukhtar Auezov, Joseph M. Schenck, and Werner Jaeger. After her are Margherita Sarfatti, Eero Saarinen, Hubert Van Innis, Mei Lanfang, Fyodor Kuznetsov, and Milan Stojadinović.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Maria Valtorta ranks 1,746 out of 5,161. Before her are Walter Zenga (1960), Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (-102), Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1613), Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano (1770), Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (1441), and Eusebius of Vercelli (283). After her are Maria Teresa de Filippis (1926), Margarita Luti (1500), Christian Vieri (1973), Agostino Steffani (1654), Ercole Consalvi (1757), and Lollia Paulina (15).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Maria Valtorta ranks 112. Before her are Claudio Magris (1939), Veronica Franco (1546), Felice Romani (1788), Pacuvius (-220), Catherine of Bologna (1413), and Ubertino of Casale (1259). After her are Bartolomeo Platina (1421), Margherita Sarfatti (1880), Jacopo Sannazaro (1458), Enzo of Sardinia (1220), Rafael Sabatini (1875), and Giorgio Bassani (1916).

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