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Vitsentzos Kornaros

Died in 1613

Vitsentzos Kornaros, born in March 1553 in the village of Trapezonda, near Sitia, was the youngest of the five sons of a very wealthy, Hellenized Venetian-Cretan family. Until about the age of thirty-five he lived on his forefathers' lands, as a landed lord surrounded by servants and Orthodox peasants, then settled in Candia, capital of Venetian Crete, where he married Marietta Zeno in September 1590 and had two daughters. He sat on the city's Council of Nobles, took on administrative duties from 1591, served as health inspector during the plague of 1591 to 1593, and died there in 1613 or 1614.

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