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Michele Amari

1806 - 1889

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Michele Benedetto Gaetano Amari (7 July 1806 in Palermo – 16 July 1889 in Florence) was a Sicilian patriot, liberal revolutionary and politician of aristocratic background, historian and orientalist. He rose to prominence as a champion of Sicilian independence from the Neapolitan Bourbon rule when he published his history of the War of the Sicilian Vespers in 1842. He was a minister in the Sicilian revolutionary government of 1848–9 and in Garibaldi's revolutionary cabinet in Sicily in 1860. Having embraced the cause of Italian unification, he helped prepare the annexation of Sicily by the Kingdom of Sardinia and was active in his later years as a senator of the Kingdom of Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michele Amari is the 380th most popular historian (down from 371st in 2019), the 3,448th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,415th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Italian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Michele Amari ranks 380 out of 561. Before him are Leo Allatius, Heinrich Zimmer, Géza Alföldy, Gottfried Arnold, Léon Gautier, and Heinrich von Sybel. After him are Peter Gay, Heinrich Gelzer, Ernest Labrousse, Fritz Stern, Cadmus of Miletus, and Domenico Losurdo.

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Among people born in 1806, Michele Amari ranks 48. Before him are Jovan Sterija Popović, Georg Adolf Erman, Stand Watie, Fabre Geffrard, Aristeidis Moraitinis, and Jane Pierce. After him are Ivan Kireyevsky, Matthew Fontaine Maury, William Fothergill Cooke, Henry Kellett, Gaetano Bedini, and Martín Carrera. Among people deceased in 1889, Michele Amari ranks 71. Before him are August Ahlqvist, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Josip Filipović, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Sergey Botkin, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. After him are Ole Jacob Broch, Juan Montalvo, Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Antonino Vidal, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, and Warren De la Rue.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Michele Amari ranks 3,449 out of 5,161. Before him are Arnoldo Foà (1916), Ippolito Nievo (1831), Antonio Janigro (1918), Guglielmo Gabetto (1916), Luigi Cantone (1917), and Renzo Rossellini (1908). After him are Eugenio Garin (1909), Franco Rol (1908), Fausta Morganti (1944), Tony Renis (1938), Monica Guerritore (1958), and Roberto Pruzzo (1955).

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Among HISTORIANS In Italy

Among historians born in Italy, Michele Amari ranks 25. Before him are Festus (390), Marino Sanuto the Younger (1466), Filippo Baldinucci (1625), Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (-200), Andrea Riccardi (1950), and Dino Compagni (1255). After him are Girolamo Mei (1519), and Alessandro Barbero (1959).

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