Dionysios Solomos

Dionysios Solomos was born in Zakynthos on 8 April 1798, to a count from a Cretan family who had taken refuge on the island at the end of the seventeenth century and to a servant whom his father married the day before his own death, in 1807. Sent to Italy at ten, he studied there and wrote at first in Italian; he learned to write Greek only at twenty. He defended the spoken language against learned Greek and left almost all his work unfinished, published in fragments after his death. Settled in Corfu in 1825, he died there on 9 February 1857, aged fifty-eight.

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• PoetryHymn to LibertyΎμνος εις την ΕλευθερίανDionysios Solomos · 1825Literature