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Andreas Kalvos

Died in 1869

Andreas Kalvos, born in Zakynthos on 1 April 1792, was taken at the age of ten to Livorno by a father who left his wife behind; the two sons never saw their mother again. In Florence he was Ugo Foscolo's copyist and then his secretary, and followed him to Switzerland and then to London, where their friendship broke down. Back in Italy, he was arrested as a Carbonaro and expelled to Geneva, which he left for Paris in 1825. He landed in Greece the following year, settled in Corfu and taught at the Ionian Academy. Leaving again for England, he ran a girls' school in Louth, and died there on 3 November 1869.

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