# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ottavio-gaetani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:54:17.227Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ottavio-gaetani"
name: "Ottavio Gaetani"
slug: "ottavio-gaetani"
description: "Ottavio Gaetani was an Italian Jesuit and historian, writing exclusively in Latin and most notable for his Vitae Sanctorum Siculorum. He is held to be the founder of hagiography in his native Sicily and one of the island's main 16th-century and early 17th-century historians."
tagline: "Italian historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ottavio_Gaetani%2C_8B6292040_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1566-04-22"
deathDate: "1620-03-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.935241333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "اوتافيو جايتانى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottavio_Gaetani"
    title: "Ottavio Gaetani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottavio_Gaetani"
    title: "Ottavio Gaetani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottavio_Gaetani"
    title: "Ottavio Gaetani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3887218"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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