Andreas Laskaratos
Andreas Laskaratos ( Greek Ανδρέας Λασκαράτος ; * May 1, 1811 in Lixouri ; † July 23 or July 24, 1901 in Argostoli ) was a satirical writer and critic. As an enlightener and moralist, he found his opponents and objects of illustration mainly in the ranks of the church and the aristocracy of his home island of Kefalonia . He wrote in Greek and Italian.
biography
Andreas was born into the Tirpado (or Greek Typaldos) family, a noble family that originally came from Naples. He soon gave up his family name and from then on worked under the stage name Andreas Laskaratos. At first he founded a farm in Pitsata near Lixouri to research new cultivation methods, but soon turned to literature. From 1844 he managed the family's extensive basic assets . Lixouri appeared in 1845 in 1836 . His best-known work are The Mysteries of Kefalonia , a socially critical work.
Laskaratos was excommunicated, which he made fun of: he asked to excommunicate his children's shoes because he had no money to buy them, alluding to a belief that the bodies of the buried excommunicated would not dissolve.
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| SURNAME | Laskaratos, Andreas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Λασκαράτος, Ανδρέας (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | satirical writer and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lixouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1901 or July 24, 1901 |
| Place of death | Argostoli |