ANDREAS CALVOS

Andreas Calvos, amajor Greek poet, was born in 1792 on the island of Zakynthos. He traveled to Livorno, Pisa, Florence, Zurich and London, and then he returned to Florence. He was arrested by the police for political reasons and was deported to Geneva. There, in 1824, he wrote his ten first odes. He then went to Paris, where he wrote ten more odes. He moved to Corfu where he taught at the Ionian Academy...