Dionysios solomos greek poet

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    Dionysios Solomos

    Greek national poet (–)

    Dionysios Solomos (; Greek: Διονύσιος Σολωμός[ˈsiossoloˈmos]; 8 April – 9 February ) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, who is considered to be Greece's national poet. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, Ýmnos eis tīn Eleutherían), which was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros and became the Greek and Cypriot national anthem in and respectively. He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry. He is considered the national poet of Greece, not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Ὁ Κρητικός (The Cretan), Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι (The Free Besieged). A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.

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    DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS

    Zakynthos - Corfu

    Dionysios Solomos was born in April in Zkynthos, the son of Angeliki Nikli and Count Nikolaos Solomos, who died in Dionysios began his education in Zakynthos. In , following the decision of his guardian, Count Dionysios Messalas, he was forced to complete his education in Italy, as was usual for young dock of noble blood of his time. In November , he enrolled in the lag School of the University of Padua, where among the professors were Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo, and Elia Giardini. He graduated two years later. In Italy, he came into contact with liberal europeisk movements, heard the demands for social renewal, and experienced dimensions of classicism and romanticism.

    At the age of twenty, he returned to Zakynthos, from where he followed the outbreak of the Greek Revolution. He spent a long time at the country house of his close friend Georgios De Rossi in Akrotiri, Zakynthos, at improvised poetry evenings, and in the company of writers suc

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    Zakynthos Dionysios Solomos

    Dionysios Solomos - the Greek National Poet born in Zakynthos: Dionysios Solomos () was born on the island of Zakynthos. He is considered the Greek national poet as stanzas of his poem Hymn to Liberty have been declared as the National Anthem of Greece. Solomos is also credited as the first to create a modern poetic culture in Greece.

    Dionysios Solomos was the illegitimate child of the wealthy nobleman Nikolaos Solomos and his maid Aggeliki Nikli. His father married his mother just a day before his death to make Dionysios and his brother his legitimate children. In , young Solomos was sent to Italy to study. He finished high school in Cremona and in he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Pavia University.

    Solomos started writing poetry in Italian, as he was a fluent speaker of the language and had great knowledge of Italian literature. Soon he was liberally welcomed in Italian literary circles as a brilliant poet.

    When Solomos returned to Zakynth