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Vittorio Alfieri

1749 - 1803

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Count Vittorio Amedeo Alfieri (, also US: , Italian: [vitˈtɔːrjo alˈfjɛːri]; 16 January 1749 – 8 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, a notable autobiography, and translated Virgil and other works from Latin and Greek. Alfieri's work exerted a profound influence on British Romantic poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vittorio Alfieri is the 1,265th most popular writer (down from 1,239th in 2019), the 1,403rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,355th in 2019) and the 96th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vittorio Alfieri ranks 1,265 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Siegfried Kracauer, John Tzetzes, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Rodolphe Töpffer, and Madame d'Aulnoy. After him are Jan Kochanowski, Agrippa d'Aubigné, Eiji Yoshikawa, Vinicius de Moraes, Nikolaus Lenau, and Gottfried Benn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Vittorio Alfieri ranks 15. Before him are Yolande de Polastron, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, and Abraham Gottlob Werner. After him are Alexander Radishchev, Martin Vahl, Levi Lincoln Sr., Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and Georg Joseph Vogler. Among people deceased in 1803, Vittorio Alfieri ranks 10. Before him are Louis I of Etruria, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia, and Cardinal de Rohan. After him are Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Ami Argand, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Xenia of Saint Petersburg, and Samuel Adams.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vittorio Alfieri ranks 1,403 out of 5,161. Before him are Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (-220), Michele Alboreto (1956), Francesco Gasparini (1668), Mary of Modena (1658), Tarpeia (-800), and Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy (1843). After him are Alvise Cadamosto (1432), Lawrence of Brindisi (1559), Paul of the Cross (1694), Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus (-265), Gerard of Csanád (980), and Giorgio Basta (1550).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Vittorio Alfieri ranks 96. Before him are Rustichello da Pisa (1290), Chiara Lubich (1920), Vladimir Bartol (1903), Asconius Pedianus (-9), Matteo Bandello (1484), and Cornelius Gallus (-69). After him are Giovanni Papini (1881), Odoric of Pordenone (1286), Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), Clodia Pulchra (-94), Giovanni Verga (1840), and Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441).

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