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Simonetta Vespucci

1453 - 1476

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Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo; c. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta ("the fair Simonetta"), was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters. Some art historians have taken issue with these attributions, which the Victorian critic John Ruskin has been blamed for promulgating. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simonetta Vespucci is the 10th most popular celebrity (up from 11th in 2019), the 442nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 476th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Celebrity.

Simonetta Vespucci was most famous for being the daughter of a Florentine merchant and a noblewoman. She was also married to Francesco del Giocondo, a wealthy Florentine silk merchant.

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Among celebrities, Simonetta Vespucci ranks 10 out of 265. Before her are Jeanne Calment, Margaret Brown, Phineas Gage, Kaspar Hauser, Lina Medina, and Mary Mallon. After her are Robert Wadlow, Millvina Dean, Buffalo Bill, Jon Brower Minnoch, Blanche Monnier, and Don King.

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Among people born in 1453, Simonetta Vespucci ranks 2. Before her is Giuliano de' Medici. After her are Afonso de Albuquerque, Clarice Orsini, Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Gülbahar Hatun, Andreas Palaiologos, Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Margaret of Foix, and João Fernandes Lavrador. Among people deceased in 1476, Simonetta Vespucci ranks 2. Before her is Vlad the Impaler. After her are Regiomontanus, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Stefan Branković, Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, Frederick I, Elector Palatine, George VIII of Georgia, Agnes of Burgundy, Duchess of Bourbon, and Pietro Mocenigo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Simonetta Vespucci ranks 442 out of 5,161. Before her are Luigi Boccherini (1743), Pope Sergius II (800), Pope Anastasius III (890), Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1751), Conrad IV of Germany (1228), and Amadeo I of Spain (1845). After her are Roberto Benigni (1952), Antipope John XXIII (1370), Alberto Moravia (1907), Brennus (-500), Pope Callixtus I (180), and Maria Luisa of Spain (1745).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Italy

Among celebrities born in Italy, Simonetta Vespucci ranks 2. Before her are Ötzi (-3345). After her are Rosalia Lombardo (1918), Cecilia Gallerani (1473), Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837), and Milena Miconi (1971).

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