VALAORITIS ARISTOTELES
Ο Σαμουήλ (poem)
Η προσευχή του Αθανάσιου Διάκου (poem)
Biographical Note
A Greek poet and politician. He was born on the Ionian island of Lefkas in 1824 and died in 1879. He studied Law in Athens, Geneve, Paris, London, and he became a Dr of law in Pisa. Returned to Greece he worked for the independence of the Ionian islands from the British occupation and their union with Greece. He elected a member of the Ionian Parliament and after the union a member of the Greek Parliament. A very important poet, he was a leading figure of the romanticism in Greece.
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