Antonios Matesis

Antonios Matesis was born in Zakynthos in 1794 into a noble family of the island, then Venetian and later British. He studied Italian philology and philosophy with teachers from Zakynthos, taught himself French and English, and translated Terence and Virgil. A member of the Filiki Eteria during the Revolution, a municipal councillor for education and worship, he wrote a grammar of the spoken language as early as 1824 and took its side in the quarrel that divided Greek letters. He died in Ermoupoli, on the island of Syros, where he had retired at the end of his life.

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