Popularity ranking · Italy

The 100 most popular Poets in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest poets in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 257 poets tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Giordano Bruno, Erri De Luca and Alda Merini lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2.6M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 79k, and the largest, Giordano Bruno, reaches around 995k people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Miguel de Cervantes 73k 43.5 62.9% Poet
27 Vinicius de Moraes 72k 46.3 0.0% Poet
28 Julius Evola 68k 44.0 12.9% Poet
29 Aristophanes 64k 36.4 27.4% Poet
30 Ovid 55k 50.2 55.4% Poet
31 Martin Heidegger 54k 45.3 60.6% Poet
32 Arthur Rimbaud 54k 44.4 60.4% Poet
33 Aldous Huxley 53k 30.5 59.0% Poet
34 Novalis 52k 46.6 60.7% Poet
35 Charlotte Brontë 51k 35.8 54.7% Poet
36 Ray Bradbury 44k 39.7 70.6% Poet
37 Allen Ginsberg 44k 45.8 51.5% Poet
38 Zelda Fitzgerald 44k Poet
39 Wilfred Owen 44k 57.3 73.5% Poet
40 Ralph Waldo Emerson 43k 41.0 49.5% Poet
41 John Keats 42k 37.6 53.9% Poet
42 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 41k 47.6 64.9% Poet
43 Petrarch 38k 41.1 60.5% Poet
44 John Henry Newman 38k 31.5 70.2% Poet
45 Boris Vian 37k 43.0 52.0% Poet
46 Joyce Carol Oates 37k 41.2 63.1% Poet
47 Alexander Pushkin 37k 38.3 61.9% Poet
48 Milarepa 37k Poet
49 Henry David Thoreau 36k 44.5 63.4% Poet
50 Eugenio Montale 36k 45.9 74.6% Poet

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest poet in Italy?

Giordano Bruno currently leads with an estimated audience of 995k people in Italy.

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