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Matteo Bandello

1484 - 1561

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Matteo Bandello (c. 1480–1562) was an Italian writer, soldier, Dominican friar and bishop, best known for his novellas. His collection of 214 novellas made him the most popular short-story writer of his day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matteo Bandello is the 1,216th most popular writer (up from 1,313th in 2019), the 1,361st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,447th in 2019) and the 94th most popular Italian Writer.

Matteo Bandello is most famous for his novel, "The Novels of Matteo Bandello," which was published in 1554.

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Among writers, Matteo Bandello ranks 1,216 out of 7,302. Before him are Irwin Shaw, Khushal Khattak, Noah Gordon, Ahmed Deedat, Shi Nai'an, and Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani. After him are Tahar Ben Jelloun, James Clavell, Blaise Cendrars, Cornelius Gallus, Robert Sheckley, and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1484, Matteo Bandello ranks 8. Before him are Bartolomé de las Casas, Hans Baldung, Anne of Foix-Candale, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and Sebastian Cabot. After him are Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Pedro Mascarenhas, Michele Sanmicheli, and Jón Arason. Among people deceased in 1561, Matteo Bandello ranks 6. Before him are Rüstem Pasha, Şehzade Bayezid, Menno Simons, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara, and Gülfem Hatun. After him are Lope de Aguirre, Sayri Túpac, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Bairam Khan, Claude Garamond, and Jan Tarnowski.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Matteo Bandello ranks 1,361 out of 5,161. Before him are Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano (1596), Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1490), Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804), Andrea Amati (1505), Cima da Conegliano (1459), and Teobaldo Boccapecci (1100). After him are Alessandro Moreschi (1858), Mariano Rampolla (1843), Radagaisus (400), Gaius Musonius Rufus (25), Publius Ventidius Bassus (-150), and Carlo Gambino (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Matteo Bandello ranks 94. Before him are Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427), Quintus Tullius Cicero (-102), Rustichello da Pisa (1290), Chiara Lubich (1920), Vladimir Bartol (1903), and Asconius Pedianus (-9). After him are Cornelius Gallus (-69), Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Giovanni Papini (1881), Odoric of Pordenone (1286), Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), and Clodia Pulchra (-94).

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