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Ugo Foscolo

1778 - 1827

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Ugo Foscolo (Italian: [ˈuːɡo ˈfoskolo, fɔs-]; 6 February 1778 – 10 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet. He is remembered for his 1807 long poem Dei Sepolcri, and for writing what is considered the first modern Italian novel, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis (1798). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ugo Foscolo is the 1,193rd most popular writer (down from 1,169th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Greece (down from 271st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Greek Writer.

Ugo Foscolo is most famous for his poem "Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis."

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Among writers, Ugo Foscolo ranks 1,193 out of 7,302. Before him are Zachris Topelius, Jernej Kopitar, Monique Wittig, Michael Connelly, Ljudevit Gaj, and Marshall Rosenberg. After him are Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Sarah, Duchess of York, Rigas Feraios, Asconius Pedianus, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Rosamunde Pilcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Ugo Foscolo ranks 17. Before him are Bernardo O'Higgins, Clemens Brentano, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Fernando Sor, Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn. After him are Honoré V, Prince of Monaco, Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Carl Ludvig Engel, Kittur Chennamma, Beau Brummell, and Sophie Blanchard. Among people deceased in 1827, Ugo Foscolo ranks 10. Before him are Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, William Blake, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Wilhelm Hauff. After him are Samuel Crompton, Wilhelm Müller, George Canning, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Morten Thrane Brünnich, and Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Ugo Foscolo ranks 280 out of 1,024. Before him are Theodoros Kolokotronis (1770), Anaxandridas II (-565), Arsinoe I (-305), Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (1906), Callias II (-515), and Georgios Roubanis (1929). After him are Rigas Feraios (1757), Isidore of Kiev (1385), Perdiccas I of Macedon (-700), Pelopidas (-450), Phocion (-402), and Lucas Papademos (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Ugo Foscolo ranks 32. Before him are Bacchylides (-490), Periander (-700), Philostratus (170), Agathon (-448), Lafcadio Hearn (1850), and Jean Moréas (1856). After him are Rigas Feraios (1757), Semonides of Amorgos (-650), Hierocles of Alexandria (410), Phrynichus (-535), Cratinus (-500), and Diagoras of Melos (-450).

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