WRITER

Matteo Maria Boiardo

1441 - 1494

Photo of Matteo Maria Boiardo

Icon of person Matteo Maria Boiardo

Matteo Maria Boiardo (US: boy-AR-doh, boh-YAR-doh, Italian: [matˈtɛːo maˈriːa boˈjardo]; 1440 – 19/20 December 1494) was an Italian Renaissance poet, best known for his epic poem Orlando innamorato. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Matteo Maria Boiardo is the 1,358th most popular writer (up from 1,644th in 2019), the 1,496th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,728th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Matteo Maria Boiardo by language

Loading...

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Matteo Maria Boiardo ranks 1,358 out of 7,302Before him are Fredric Brown, David C. H. Austin, Norman Mailer, Harry Harrison, Jakob Wassermann, and Ethel Voynich. After him are Cassius Longinus, Garcilaso de la Vega, Li Qingzhao, Vidyapati, Qiu Jin, and Alfonsina Storni.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1441, Matteo Maria Boiardo ranks 8Before him are Danjong of Joseon, Topa Inca Yupanqui, Charlotte of Savoy, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, Martín Alonso Pinzón, and Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri. After him are Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Antonio de Nebrija, Francisco de Borja, and Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1494, Matteo Maria Boiardo ranks 8Before him are Domenico Ghirlandaio, Hans Memling, Ferdinand I of Naples, Poliziano, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, and Melozzo da Forlì. After him are Muhammad XIII of Granada, Yuriy Drohobych, Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany, Giosafat Barbaro, and Giovanni Santi.

Others Born in 1441

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1494

Go to all Rankings

In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Matteo Maria Boiardo ranks 1,496 out of 5,161Before him are Milo Manara (1945), Fausto Sozzini (1539), Valentino Mazzola (1919), Giuseppe Saragat (1898), Lucifer of Cagliari (201), and Alessandro Nesta (1976). After him are Julia Drusilla (39), Quintus Hortensius (-114), Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (1784), Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1727), Paolo Sorrentino (1970), and Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Matteo Maria Boiardo ranks 102Before him are Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Giovanni Papini (1881), Odoric of Pordenone (1286), Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), Clodia Pulchra (-94), and Giovanni Verga (1840). After him are Boris Pahor (1913), Ignazio Silone (1900), Francesco Maria Piave (1810), Claudio Magris (1939), Veronica Franco (1546), and Felice Romani (1788).