Andreas Kalvos
Andreas Kalvos (also Kalbos or Kalwos , Greek Ανδρέας Κάλβος , * 1792 in Zakynthos ; † November 3, 1869 in Louth, Lincolnshire ) was a Greek writer of the 19th century.
Life
Kalvos was born the son of an impoverished aristocrat on Zakynthos, which at that time was still under Venetian rule. When he was ten years old, his father moved with him and his brother to Livorno , which at that time was a large Greek community. Kalvos was educated in Italian and could write better in this language than in Greek . When he was 20 his father died and he met the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo in Florence and became his private secretary and companion. Kalvos was strongly influenced by Foscolo and took over his turn to classicism as well as his liberal political positions. He wrote three tragedies dealing with classical Greek subjects, Theramenes , Danaides and Hippias .
In June 1816 Kalvos traveled to Foscolo in Switzerland and then with him to London , where they fell out and parted. In 1819 Kalvos married Marie Therese Thomas, an Englishwoman, who died soon after. He returned to Florence, where he joined the Carbonari and was therefore expelled. He then settled in Geneva in 1821 , from where he moved to Paris in 1824 . In 1824 he published ten patriotic odes under the name Lyra , and in 1826 another volume with ten odes with the title Lyric . In his odes he dealt with the battle of the Greeks against the Ottomans . In 1826 he settled in Corfu , where he lived for the next 26 years as a teacher of philosophy and Italian literature at the Ionian Academy . As a poet, he was no longer to publish anything.
Kalvos began to dress in black and paint his furniture black. The circle around Dionysios Solomos took no notice of Kalvos, and he was at odds with many writers. In 1852 he returned to England, where he married Charlotte Augusta Wadams, who was twenty years his junior, and ran a girls' school with her in Lincolnshire . He died on November 3, 1869. His work had been forgotten and was later rediscovered by Kostis Palamas , among others . His poems have been translated into French, Spanish and Italian.
In 1960 his body was transferred to Zakynthos.
Works (selection)
- Greek
- Elpis Patridos (1819)
- Andrea Kalvou ōdai, 1-20. hermēneutikē ekdosē. Vivliopōleion tēs Hestias ID Kollarou, Athens 1976.
- Ανδρέα Κάλβου Ωδαί . Κριτική έκδοση: Filippo Maria Pontani , εισαγωγή: Κωνσταντίνος Θησέως Δημαράς , γλωσσάριο: Anna Gentilini. Ikaros, Athens, 1988.
- Odi (oden). Università di Palermo, Istituto di filologia greca, Palermo 1988.
- Hapanta . Ekdoseis "Keryneia", Leukos 1988, ISBN 9963-7658-6-6 .
- Ē Iōnias . Synecheia, Athens 1992, ISBN 960-7196-03-1 .
- Italian
- Giorgio Zoras (Ed.): Andrea Calbo. Opere italiane: Teramene, Le Danaidi e scritti minori . Rome 1938.
- Mario Vitti (ed.): A. Kalvos ei suoi scritti in italiano: Ippia, Teramene, Le stagioni dell'abate Meli, Le Danaidi e Pagine sparse . Napoli 1960.
literature
- Mario Vitti : Calbo (Kalvos), Andrea. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 16: Caccianiga-Caluso. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1973.
- Filippo Maria Pontani : Per un'edizione critica di Kalvos . In: Helikon 1-4, 1964, pp. 84-98
- Maria Caracausi: Studi sulla lingua di Andrea Kalvos , Palermo 1993 (Quaderni dell'Istituto di filologia greca dell'Universita di Palermo)
Web links
- Writings by and about Kalvos in the Opac of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale
- Biography of Andreas Kalvos (Greek, English )
- Standard entry in the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (ital.)
- Kalvos in the open library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalvos, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Αντρέας Κάλβος (Greek); Calvos; Calf; Kalwos (forms of reference); Calbo, Andrea (Italian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zakynthos |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1869 |
| Place of death | Louth (Lincolnshire) |