Aristotelis Valaoritis

Aristotelis Valaoritis, born in Lefkada in 1824 into a family of landowners, studied law in Geneva, Pisa and Paris. Elected a deputy of the Ionian Islands, then, after their union with Greece in 1864, of the parliament in Athens, he campaigned there for the union of all Greek lands. His verse, written in the spoken language and nourished by the songs of the klephts, celebrated the heroes of independence and the revolts of the islands against Venice. His great-grandson Nanos was also a poet. He died in Lefkada in 1879, at the age of fifty-five.

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• PoetryΟ ΦωτεινόςAristotelis Valaoritis · 1891not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain