# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luigi-mercantini
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:55:59.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luigi-mercantini"
name: "Luigi Mercantini"
slug: "luigi-mercantini"
description: "Luigi Mercantini was an Italian poet and writer, who took part in the movements for the Italian unification in the late 19th century. He is better known for his poem \"La spigolatrice di Sapri\", depicting the ill-fated expedition led in 1857 by Carlo Pisacane against the Kingdom of Naples, which was also translated into English by Henry W. Longfellow with the title The Gleaner of Sapri."
tagline: "Italian poet (1821–1872)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luigi_Mercantini_(Canti%2C_Ferrario_1885).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1821-09-19"
deathDate: "1872-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.55
  momentum:             0.343747354161375
  historical:           4.620304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mercantini"
    title: "Luigi Mercantini"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mercantini"
    title: "Luigi Mercantini"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Mercantini"
    title: "Luigi Mercantini"
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    title: "ლუიჯი მერკანტინი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luigi_Mercantini"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3839886"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump