Georgios Chortatzis
Georgios Chortatzis or Chortatsis (c. 1545 – c. 1610) was a Greek dramatist in Cretan verse.
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Georgios Chortatzis
- Name
- Georgios Chortatzis
- Born
- c. 1550
- Birthplace
- Rethymno, Crete (then Kingdom of Candia)
- Died
- c. 1660
- Field
- Literature
- Movement
- Cretan Renaissance, Cretan literature
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Georgios Chortatzis or Chortatsis (c. 1545 – c. 1610) was a Greek dramatist in Cretan verse.
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He was, along with Vitsentzos Kornaros, one of the main representatives of a school of literature in the vernacular Cretan dialect that flourished in the late 16th and early 17th centuries under Venetian rule. His best-known work is Erofili (or Erophile), a tragedy set in Egypt.
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• Name — Georgios Chortatzis • Born — c. 1550 • Birthplace — Rethymno, Crete (then Kingdom of Candia) • Died — c. 1660 • Field — Literature • Movement — Cretan Renaissance, Cretan literature • Works — Erofili, Katsourbos, Panoria
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