Georgios Chortatsis

Geórgios Chortátsis, born in Rethymno around 1550, belonged to an old Cretan family, probably noble, about which almost nothing is known: no archive identifies him with certainty and his family name remains unknown. He lived under the island's Venetian rule, at a time when Candia and Rethymno housed a learned life nourished by the Italian Renaissance and the local speech. He spent several years in the capital of Crete before returning to work in his native town, towards the end of the sixteenth century, and died around 1610.

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