Writers in Rome
The atlas holds 67 people and 164 moments here, from 211 BC to 2025. The most recorded lives are Michelangelo, Cicero and Julius Caesar.
Notable people
Oscar Wilde
in 1877
1 moment here
Irish author, poet, playwright, critic, and leading figure in late nineteenth-century aestheticism.…
Ovid
in 8
1 moment here
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) was a Roman poet born at Sulmo. Educated in Rome, he later travelled in Greece, Asia Minor, and Sicily, though the…
Pablo Picasso
in 1917
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Paul the Apostle
from 60 to 64
2 moments here
Paul (Saul of Tarsus) was a first-century Jewish Christian apostle and missionary. The chronology below follows the traditional reconstruction used…
Paul Walker
in 2011
1 moment here
Paul William Walker IV was an American actor best known for playing Brian O'Conner in the Fast & Furious franchise.…
Petrarch
from 1337 to 1350
3 moments here
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) was an Italian scholar, poet, cleric, diplomat, and foundational humanist.…
Plutarch
in 70
1 moment here
Greek Platonist philosopher, biographer, essayist, magistrate, and Delphic priest. He was born at Chaeronea between 45 and 47 CE and died after 119…
Pope Francis
from 2001 to 2025
7 moments here
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, was an Argentine Jesuit priest, archbishop of Buenos Aires, cardinal, and head of the Catholic Church and…
Pope John Paul II
from 1946 to 2005
9 moments here
Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920–2005), Pope John Paul II from 1978, was a Polish Catholic priest, bishop, cardinal, and pope.…
Rabindranath Tagore
in 1926
1 moment here
Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, composer, painter, philosopher, social reformer, and educationist.…
Ronald Reagan
from 1982 to 1990
4 moments here
American broadcaster, actor, labor leader, governor of California, and 40th president of the United States.…
Salvador Dalí
from 1948 to 1949
2 moments here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Seneca the Younger
from 5 to 65
6 moments here
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, commonly called Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, and statesman.…
Sigmund Freud
in 1923
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Stephen Hawking
in 1981
1 moment here
English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author whose work on singularities, black-hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation reshaped modern…
Tacitus
from 88 to 104
4 moments here
Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian, senator, orator, and provincial governor. His birth date and place are uncertain; he was probably…
Theodore Roosevelt
in 1870
1 moment here
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858–1919) was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909.…
Thomas Aquinas
from 1244 to 1265
2 moments here
Italian Dominican friar, priest, theologian, and philosopher. His documented movements connected family residences in southern Italy, Dominican and…
Virgil
from 55 BC to 36 BC
3 moments here
Publius Vergilius Maro, known as Virgil, was a Roman poet of the Augustan age and the author of the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.…
Moments
- 1787 Begins second Roman residence Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1814 Writing from Rome Michael Faraday
- 1817 Journey to Rome Lord Byron
- 1819 Winter stay in Rome Arthur Schopenhauer
- 1833 Arrives in Rome Hans Christian Andersen
- 1834 Returns to Rome for Easter Hans Christian Andersen
- 1840 Begins winter residence in Rome Hans Christian Andersen
- 1845 Enters Rome through Porta del Popolo Charles Dickens
- 1848 Visit to revolutionary Rome Giuseppe Verdi
- 1853 Visit for Il trovatore Giuseppe Verdi
- 1863 Visited Rome during the 1863 journey Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1870 Visit to Rome and meeting with Pius IX Theodore Roosevelt
- 1877 Audience with Pope Pius IX Oscar Wilde
- 1882 Appears in Rome Friedrich Nietzsche
- 1884 Private audience with Pope Leo XIII Jules Verne
- 1893 Falstaff premiere visit to Rome Giuseppe Verdi
- 1906 Arrival in Rome for bank work James Joyce
- 1917 Designs Parade in Rome Pablo Picasso
- 1922 Rome journey with Amédée Ozenfant Le Corbusier
- 1923 Visits Rome with Anna Freud Sigmund Freud
- 1924 First European journey: Italy Gabriela Mistral
- 1926 Meets Mussolini in Rome Rabindranath Tagore
- 1928 Work trip to Rome from Provence Gabriela Mistral
- 1929 Signing the Lateran Treaty Benito Mussolini
- 1931 Visits Vatican and meets Mussolini Mahatma Gandhi
- 1933 Summer journey in Italy Jean-Paul Sartre
- 1935 Declaration of war on Ethiopia Benito Mussolini
- 1936 Proclamation of the Italian Empire Benito Mussolini
- 1940 War declaration against Britain and France Benito Mussolini
- 1946 Postwar visit to Rome Helen Keller
- 1946 Studies at the Angelicum Pope John Paul II
- 1948 Travels to Rome Salvador Dalí
- 1949 Meets Pope Pius XII Salvador Dalí
- 1955 Film study in Rome Gabriel García Márquez
- 1962 Second Vatican Council participation Pope John Paul II
- 1963 Met Italian leaders in Rome John F. Kennedy
- 1963 Met Pope Paul VI John F. Kennedy
- 1967 Created cardinal Pope John Paul II
- 1977 Travel in Italy Jorge Luis Borges
- 1978 Election as Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II
- 1978 First public appearance as pope Pope John Paul II
- 1980 Audience with Pope John Paul II Jimmy Carter
- 1980 Rome and Venice visit Jimmy Carter
- 1981 Travel to Rome Jorge Luis Borges
- 1981 No-boundary presentation at Vatican conference Stephen Hawking
- 1981 Shot in St. Peter's Square Pope John Paul II
- 1982 Meets Pope John Paul II Ronald Reagan
- 1982 Visits Rome Ronald Reagan
- 1983 Hospitalized while visiting the Pope Mother Teresa
- 1983 Visit to Mehmet Ali Ağca in prison Pope John Paul II