Top 50 Authors in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest authors in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 1,606 authors tracked in Italy, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Amerigo Vespucci, Alberto Angela and Dante Alighieri lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 5,163,904 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 550,640, and the largest, Amerigo Vespucci, reaches around 1,952,642 people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each author, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Amerigo Vespucci	1,952,642	72.1%	Author	Politics & Society
2	Alberto Angela	1,682,831	96.7%	Author	Literature
3	Dante Alighieri	1,528,431	37.4%	Author	Literature
4	Mauro Corona	1,215,669	99.2%	Author	Literature
5	Paul the Apostle	1,206,533	11.8%	Author	Politics & Society
6	Benedetta Parodi	1,050,436	93.5%	Author	Literature
7	Chris Kyle	875,428	12.3%	Author	Literature
8	Stephen King	820,565	4.5%	Author	Literature
9	Anne Frank	705,310	4.4%	Author	Politics & Society
10	Amal Clooney	647,849	8.0%	Author	Politics & Society
11	Dan Brown	603,380	11.5%	Author	Literature
12	Italo Calvino	588,997	54.1%	Author	Literature
13	Oscar Wilde	580,462	7.1%	Author	Literature
14	Jane Austen	567,584	4.9%	Author	Literature
15	Agatha Christie	565,583	6.2%	Author	Literature
16	Sophie Kinsella	559,024	16.6%	Author	Literature
17	Cesare Pavese	489,357	92.2%	Author	Literature
18	Alessandro Manzoni	476,236	95.1%	Author	Literature
19	Gianni Rodari	466,497	96.4%	Author	Literature
20	Nostradamus	464,954	8.7%	Author	Politics & Society
21	Andrea Camilleri	461,643	78.8%	Author	Literature
22	Amanda Knox	461,450	6.9%	Author	Politics & Society
23	Umberto Eco	441,783	18.2%	Author	Literature
24	Charles Darwin	421,225	3.8%	Author	Business & Career
25	Ken Follett	415,132	15.2%	Author	Literature
26	William Shakespeare	405,577	3.9%	Author	Literature
27	Luigi Pirandello	404,247	88.4%	Author	Literature
28	Jane Goodall	402,133	2.4%	Author	Pets & Animals
29	Giovanni Verga	386,411	98.0%	Author	Literature
30	Virginia Woolf	366,013	7.9%	Author	Literature
31	Saverio Tommasi	359,885	99.3%	Author	Movies & TV
32	Elsa Morante	358,931	93.7%	Author	Literature
33	Hannah Arendt	358,288	7.7%	Author	Literature
34	George Orwell	342,508	5.0%	Author	Literature
35	Edgar Allan Poe	339,043	3.8%	Author	Literature
36	Jordan Belfort	335,504	5.6%	Author	Business & Career
37	Charles Bukowski	332,558	12.8%	Author	Literature
38	Caroline Kennedy	322,241	4.2%	Author	Politics & Society
39	Grazia Deledda	321,381	90.2%	Author	Literature
40	Moni Ovadia	320,753	98.8%	Author	Movies & TV
41	Fabio Volo	320,613	98.3%	Author	Literature
42	Pablo Neruda	319,022	11.5%	Author	Literature
43	Raffaele Morelli	300,581	99.1%	Author	Literature
44	Giosuè Carducci	300,564	97.9%	Author	Literature
45	Mario Vargas Llosa	293,051	2.9%	Author	Literature
46	Sergio Bonelli	288,640	98.8%	Author	Literature
47	Thomas Aquinas	286,561	8.6%	Author	Literature
48	Sarah, Duchess of York	284,594	4.4%	Author	Literature
49	Hermann Hesse	270,862	14.9%	Author	Literature
50	Thomas Mann	263,046	11.6%	Author	Literature