← Fame through time1300-1399
The 14th century
Whose working lives fell in the 14th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 14th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Petrarch22 decades - 2
Giotto22 decades - 3
Catherine of Siena18 decades - 4
Giovanni Boccaccio22 decades - 5
Pope Urban VI10 decades - 6
Pope Gregory XII0 decades - 7
Charles I of Hungary0 decades - 8
Joanna I of Naples0 decades - 9
Pope Boniface IX5 decades - 10
Simone Martini21 decades - 11
Pope Innocent VII0 decades - 12
Francesco Landini17 decades - 13
Taddeo Gaddi18 decades - 14
Andrea Pisano15 decades - 15
Orcagna22 decades - 16
Marco Cornaro0 decades
- 17
Filippo Villani22 decades - 18
Lorenzo Maitani0 decades - 19
Giovannino de’ Grassi0 decades - 20
Nino Pisano0 decades - 21
Francesco Talenti0 decades - 22
Bonino da Campione0 decades - 23
Bartolino da Novara11 decades
- 24
Alberto Arnoldi11 decades
- 25
Antonio Cermisone0 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.