Aristotelis Valaoritis
Greek poet (1824–1879)
Aristotelis Valaoritis (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Βαλαωρίτης; 1824 – 24 July 1879) was a Greek poet and politician, one of the main representatives of the Heptanese School. Writing in the spoken, demotic language on themes drawn from the Greek War of Independence, he came to be regarded as a national poet of Greece. He served as a deputy in the parliament of the United States of the Ionian Islands, where he advocated union with Greece, and later in the Greek Parliament. His best-known works include Kyra Frosini (1859), Athanasios Diakos (1867) and the unfinished O Fotinos. He was the great-grandfather of the poet and writer Nanos Valaoritis.
Early life and education
Valaoritis was born in Lefkada in 1824 and was of Aromanian descent. His father, Ioannis Valaoritis, was a senator and rich merchant from the region of Epirus, while his mother, Anastasia Typaldou-Foresti, came from a noble family of Cephalonia.
Valaoritis attended school in Lefkada and then studied at the Ionian Academy in Corfu from 1838 to 1841. He continued his education in Geneva and from 1844 studied law in Paris, before completing his studies at the University of Pisa. In 1847 he was arrested in Venice for anti-Austrian activity and deported to Naples.
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