17 Facts About Andreas Kalvos

Andreas Kalvos was a Greek poet of the Romantic school.

Andreas Kalvos published five volumes of poetry and drama - Canzone.

Andreas Kalvos was a contemporary of the poets Ugo Foscolo and Dionysios Solomos.

Andreas Kalvos was among the representatives of the Heptanese School of literature.

In 1802, when Andreas Kalvos was ten years old, his father took him and Nicolaos, but not his wife, to Livorno in Italy, where his brother was consul for the Ionian Islands and where there was a Greek community.

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In Livorno, Andreas Kalvos first studied ancient Greek and Latin literature and history.

Under the influence of Foscolo Andreas Kalvos took up neoclassicism, archaizing ideals, and political liberalism.

In 1813 Andreas Kalvos wrote three tragedies in Italian: Theramenes, Danaides and Hippias.

Andreas Kalvos completed four dramatic monologues, in the neoclassical style.

Andreas Kalvos remained in Florence, where he again became a teacher.

Andreas Kalvos earned a living by giving Italian and Greek lessons, and translating the Anglican liturgy into Italian and Greek.

Andreas Kalvos composed and published a modern Greek grammar, 'Italian Lessons, in four parts' and dealt with the syntax of an English-Greek dictionary.

Andreas Kalvos retreated to Geneva, finding support in the philhellene circle of the city.

Andreas Kalvos worked again as a teacher of foreign languages, while publishing of a manuscript of the Iliad, that however was not successful.

At the beginning of 1825 Andreas Kalvos returned to Paris, where in 1826 he published ten more Greek odes, Lyrica, with the financial aid of philhellenes.

Andreas Kalvos landed at Nauplion; but was disappointed by the rivalries and hatreds of the Greeks and their indifference to himself and his work.

Andreas Kalvos was director of the Corfiot Gymnasium during 1841, but resigned by the end of the year.