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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 | Country share | Avg age | Female share | Subtype |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 |  Søren Kierkegaard |
18k | 12.8% | 47.5 | 84.6% | Poet |
| 77 |  Hafez |
18k | 2.6% | 41.0 | 51.4% | Poet |
| 78 |  Omar Khayyám |
17k | 11.2% | 32.2 | 44.9% | Poet |
| 79 |  Nikolai Gogol |
17k | 2.1% | 40.0 | 53.8% | Poet |
| 80 |  Lucan |
16k | 1.6% | 46.1 | 48.1% | Poet |
| 81 |  dean koontz |
16k | 2.5% | 35.1 | 50.9% | Poet |
| 82 |  Emperor Ling of Han |
16k | 94.4% | — | — | Poet |
| 83 |  Audre Lorde |
16k | 2.7% | 20.4 | 79.1% | Poet |
| 84 |  Octavio Paz |
15k | 2.1% | 29.5 | 68.4% | Poet |
| 85 |  Ismail Kadare |
14k | 35.8% | — | — | Poet |
| 86 |  Richard I of England |
14k | 1.2% | 39.9 | 49.9% | Poet |
| 87 |  Chinua Achebe |
14k | 4.8% | 38.7 | 56.3% | Poet |
| 88 |  Gabriela Mistral |
13k | 3.4% | 36.0 | 70.4% | Poet |
| 89 |  Colm Tóibín |
13k | 11.2% | — | — | Poet |
| 90 |  Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
12k | 20.9% | 49.7 | 100.0% | Poet |
| 91 |  Andrea Gibson |
12k | 1.2% | 29.8 | 89.0% | Poet |
| 92 |  Raymond Queneau |
12k | 52.5% | — | — | Poet |
| 93 |  Shel Silverstein |
12k | 0.8% | 42.6 | 100.0% | Poet |
| 94 |  Wole Soyinka |
11k | 3.6% | 35.5 | 48.5% | Poet |
| 95 |  Théophile Gautier |
11k | 22.2% | 41.4 | 64.8% | Poet |
| 96 |  Joseph Brodsky |
11k | 24.0% | — | — | Poet |
| 97 |  Nadine Gordimer |
10k | 20.2% | 31.6 | 80.8% | Poet |
| 98 |  Ephrem the Syrian |
10k | 28.8% | 48.3 | 65.9% | Poet |
| 99 |  Louise Michel |
10k | 2.0% | 36.2 | 75.9% | Poet |
| 100 |  Harriet Beecher Stowe |
9.9k | 1.9% | — | — | Poet |
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Frequently asked questions
How is this Top 100 list 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 934k people in Italy.