Andreas Kalvos
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Andreas Kalvos (Greek: Ανδρέας Κάλβος, 1792-November 3, 1869) was one of the greatest Greek writers.
Biography
Born in Zakynthos in 1792. His parents were Andriani Roukani, his mother and Ioannis Kalvos, his father. Kalvos is one of the two children including Nikolaos which he was two years older. Kalvos visited Livorno (then Leghorn), Pisa for a few months where he worked with other writers and Florence in Italy. In Livorno, Kalvos wrote his first work was Ymno ston Napoleonta = Hymn to Napoleon. In 1812, his father died and continous large economic turn which he knew other parallels and the knowledge from the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo. Foscolo became a teacher, and an indoctrinator in neoclassicism, in ancient models and in liberal politics. In 1813, Kalvos and Foscolo wrote four tragedies in Italian including Theramenes, Danaides and Hippias. Kalvos also completed four dramatic works, together with neoclassical orders. Foscolo was banished to Zurich in Switzerland at th ened of 1813. Kalvos later wrote Odi eis Iounious Kalvos in 1816, when he learned and the death of his mother.
At the end of 1816, two of his friends left for England. Kalvos married Teresa Thomas in May fo 1819. Kalvos also visited Paris in 1820 and later Geneva where he worked as a professor of foreign languages and also studied the manuscripts from the Iliad.
At the end of June 1826, he moved to Nafplio. A month later, he visited Corfu and attended the Ionian Academy until 1827. In 1841, he became principal of the Corfiot Gymnasium (Kerkyraikou Gymnasiou) and he later worked in several newspapers. He moved to Louth in England at the end of 1852 where he married Charlotte Wadans a year after his arrival. Kalvos died on November 3, 1869.
Writing
Other languages:
- Hippias
- Danaides
- Theramenes
- Le Stagioni - Giovanni Meli
- Italian Lessons in Four Parts (1820)el:Ανδρέας Κάλβος
