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Mar 29, 1553 Sitia, Decentralized Administration of Crete, Greece Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1552)
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About Vitsentzos Kornaros
- Vitsentzos or Vikentios Kornaros (Greek: ??ts??t??? or ?????t??? ????????) or Vincenzo Cornaro (March 29, 1553 – 1613/1614) was a poet from Crete, who wrote the romantic epic poem Erotokritos.
- He wrote in vernacular Cretan dialect (Cretan Greek), and was a leading figure of the Cretan Renaissance. Vitsentzos Kornaros is considered to be the greatest of all the Cretan poets and one of the most significant and influential figures in the entire course of Greek poetry.
- The son of a Venetian-Cretan aristocrat and a scion of the noble Venetian family of Cornaro, he was born near Sitia, Crete in 1553.
- Later, when he married, he came to live in Candia (now Heraklion) where he joined the Accademia dei Stravaganti.
- Kornaros died in 1613 (or 1614), just before his contemporaries, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.
