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Vincenzo Monti

1754 - 1828

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Vincenzo Monti (19 February 1754 – 13 October 1828) was an Italian poet, playwright, translator, and scholar, the greatest interpreter of Italian Neoclassicism in all of its various phases. His verse translation of the Iliad is considered one of the greatest of them all, with its iconic opening ("Cantami, o Diva, del Pelide Achille l'ira funesta", lib. I, verses 1–2) becoming an extremely recognizable phrase among Italians (for example, being the text shown when opening a font file in Microsoft Windows). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vincenzo Monti is the 4,587th most popular writer (up from 4,780th in 2019), the 3,508th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,565th in 2019) and the 246th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Vincenzo Monti ranks 4,587 out of 7,302. Before him are Julia Ward Howe, Paul Déroulède, Werner Bergengruen, Yun Seondo, Saneatsu Mushanokōji, and Bruno Frank. After him are John D. MacDonald, Leszek Engelking, Mykola Kulish, George Moore, Yury Trifonov, and Pelagonius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1754, Vincenzo Monti ranks 49. Before him are Hipólito Ruiz López, Banastre Tarleton, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Ivan Martos, Anna Maria Lenngren, and Grace Elliott. After him are George Crabbe, Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Alexander Shishkov, Archibald Menzies, and Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings. Among people deceased in 1828, Vincenzo Monti ranks 36. Before him are Christian August Lorentzen, Eise Eisinga, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Thomas Bewick, and Manuel Dorrego. After him are Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Dugald Stewart, Albrecht Thaer, Johann Christoph Wendland, DeWitt Clinton, and Félix de Avelar Brotero.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Monti ranks 3,509 out of 5,161. Before him are Angelo Mai (1782), Angelo de Gubernatis (1840), Tommaso Salvadori (1835), Consalvo Sanesi (1911), Massimo Pallottino (1909), and Giorgio Francia (1947). After him are Aemilia Tertia (-230), Miki Biasion (1958), Caterina Murino (1977), Teoberto Maler (1842), Giuseppe Amato (1899), and Pasqualino De Santis (1927).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Vincenzo Monti ranks 246. Before him are Marco Girolamo Vida (1485), Tullio Pinelli (1908), William of Apulia (1100), Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio (1927), Cecco Angiolieri (1260), and Angelo de Gubernatis (1840). After him are Vittoria Aganoor (1855), Vittorio Messori (1941), Aleardo Aleardi (1812), Stefano Benni (1947), Peider Lansel (1863), and Vitaliano Brancati (1907).

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