Vitsentzos Kornaros

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Vitsentzos Kornaros

Vitsentzos or Vikentios Kornaros or Vincenzo Cornaro (March 29 1553 – 1613/1614) was a Cretan

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poet of the Greek Renaissance who wrote the romantic epic poem Erotokritos
Erotokritos

Erotokritos is a romance composed by Vitsentzos Kornaros in early 17th century Crete. It consists of 10,012 fifteen-syllable rhymed Verse s....
. He was the leading figure of the Cretan Renaissance.

Not many biographical sources exist about Kornaros himself apart from the last verses of Erotokritos. It is believed that he was born to a wealthy family in Sitia

Sitia

Sitia refers both to a port town, with 8,900 inhabitants and a municipality, with 14,338 inhabitants in the far east of Crete, in the prefecture of Lasithi....
, in 1553, and lived there roughly up to 1590.

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Vitsentzos or Vikentios Kornaros or Vincenzo Cornaro (March 29 1553 – 1613/1614) was a Cretan

Crete

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Greek

Greeks

Sitia

Heraklion

Heraklion or Iraklion , is the largest city and capital city of Crete. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a transliteration of the ancient Greek and Katharevousa name, , or Iraklio, among other variants....
), where his marriage to Marietta Zeno took place. Together they had two daughters named Helen and Katerina.

In 1591 Kornaros became an administrator, and during the outbreak of plague

Bubonic plague

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from 1591 to 1593 he worked as a sanitary supervisor. He showed interest in literature

Literature

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and was a member of a literary group called Academy of Strange, which was founded by his brother and fellow writer Andreas Kornaros.

He died in Candia

Heraklion

Heraklion or Iraklion , is the largest city and capital city of Crete. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a transliteration of the ancient Greek and Katharevousa name, , or Iraklio, among other variants....
, in 1613 (or 1614) and was buried at the church of San Francesco. The cause of his death remains unknown.

Alternate spellings of his first name include Vicenzo and Vitzentzos.

Vitsentzos Kornaros was the son of a Venetian-Cretan aristocrat and was born near Sitia, Crete in 1553. When he married, he came to live in Candia

Candia

The name Candia can refer to:* Candia , House of Candia...
(now Iraklion) where he joined the Academia dei Stravaganti.

Kornaros' "Erotokritos" was a source of inspiration for Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos was a Greece poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty , of which the first two stanzas became the Greek national anthem He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece - not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also beca...
and influenced Greek poets such as Kostis Palamas

Kostis Palamas

Kostis Palamas was a Greece poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek Literature generation of the 1880s and one of the cofounders of the so-called New Athenian School along with Georgios Drosinis and Nikos Kampas....
, Krystallis

Kostas Krystallis

Kostas Kristallis was a Greeks author, writing both poetry and prose....
and Seferis

Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos or George Seferis was the pen name of Georgios Seferi?des was one of the most important Greece poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel Prize laureate....
.

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(in Greek)
Erotokritos (Greek Wikisource
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