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Ζakynthos

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Ugo Foskolo Andreas Kalvos Grigorios Xenopoylos

Andreas Kalvos State, then wrote fiery articles on constitu-
Andreas Kalvos born in Zakynthos in tional reform in the radical newspaper Peter
1792. His father, John Kalvos was a Corfiot Braila, “Patrice”.
Cretan origin married Adriani Roukani. The Disillusioned by circumstances, gives up
1801-2 father leaves the mother, takes with everything and returns in 1852 in London,
him the two children, Andrew and his brother where a new life begins. In 1853 marries
Nicholas, and settles in Livorno, Italy, where Charlotte Ouontams forties, which is a private
died in 1812. Andreas separates from his school where he teaches Kalvos hereafter.
brother Nicholas, who will go to Trieste and There the poet of Odes will live happy the last
a career in commerce. Andreas goes to Flor- sixteen years of his life. He died in London on
ence where he meets the great scholar and November 30, 1869.
poet Hugo Foscolo. Their friendship will last Grigorios Xenopoylos
years. Andreas Kalvos studying Greek, Latin
and Italian literature, while giving lessons, He was born in 9 December 1867 in Con-
begins the first literary efforts and shares the stantinople. His father, Dionysios, hailed
liberal ideas of Foscolo. The two friends, kata- from Zakynthos and his mother, Evlalia came
trechomenoi for their ideas, resort in 1815 in from Constantinople. The family moved to
Switzerland and next year in England, where Zakynthos soon after, where Gregorios spent
Foscolo died twelve years later. In London, his youth until 1883, when he enrolled in
he teaches, writes, translates. Marries an the University of Athens to study Physics and
Englishwoman, which gives it a daughter, but Mathematics.
to lose both in 1820. He returned to Florence In 1892 he moved permanently to Athens and
and from there back to Switzerland, where in 1894 he married Efrosini Diogenidis.
the Greek Revolution breaks out. They divorced one and a half year later, hav-
In 1824 prints in Geneva the first ten Odes ing already had a daughter. In 1901 he mar-
and Paris, where he continues his patriotic ried his second spouse Christine Kanellopou-
action, in 1826, Here Kalvos stops the crea- los, with whom they had two daughters.
tive involvement with poetry and afire with In 1894 he became director in the Illustrated
excitement, coming down in Nafplion to fight. Estia newspaper and in 1896 the chief editor
But already started civil conflicts, which dis- of The Education of the Children. From 1901
appoint him. So, after the assassination of to 1912 he published literary works and
Kapodistrias, he leaves Nafplio and settles in studies in the Panathinaia, and from 1912 he
Corfu, where the principle works as a tutor, cooperated with Ethnos newspaper, writing TOURIST GUIDE 2025
then becomes professor of “theoretical phi- serialized novels. In 1927 he founded the
losophy” at the Ionian Academy and in 1841 magazine Nea Estia, whose director he was
director of the Gymnasium Sea. Publish the until 1934.
opinions of the “Official Journal” of the Ionian He died in Athens on 14 January 1951 and
was buried at public expense.
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