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Niccolò Tommaseo

THE SECOND EXILE

Niccolò Tommaseo’s writings concerning the things of Italy and Europe from 1849 onwards

Volumes 1-2-3

A selection of letters and texts written during his Corfiota stay

Introduction by R. Nicolì

This digital edition produced for the POLYSEMI Library proposes a significant sampling – albeit arbitrary to some extent – of the letters sent by Niccolò Tommaseo^[1] during the time spent in Corfu, where he moved in August 1849 after the fall of the Venetian Republic of which he had been one of the most ardent defenders. On the island the writer remained until May 1854. This is his “second exile”^[2], as he entitled the three volumes of the memoirs of those years entrusted in 1862 to the Milanese publisher Francesco Sanvito. From that edition the parts presented here have been selected and transcribed. Read more “Niccolò Tommaseo” →

Lalla Romano

LALLA ROMANO

DIARY OF GREECE

Chapters 1 – 4

Introduction by R. Nicolì

This digital edition of the POLYSEMI Library presents the transcription of some famous pages taken from the Diary of Greece by Lalla Romano; these are contained, together with the author’s entire works, in Works, two volumes edited by Cesare Segre and published by Arnoldo Mondadori in 1991 and 1992 respectively. Read more “Lalla Romano” →

Simone Pomardi

JOURNEY TO GREECE MADE BY SIMONE POMARDI IN 1804, 1805 AND 1806 INCLUDING COPPER TABLES

VOLUME 2

Chapter 29
Chapter 30

Introduction by R. Nicolì

In 1804, 1805 and 1806, for eighteen months an Irish aristocrat and talented watercolorist called Edward Dodwell and the Roman painter Simone Pomardi^[1], known for his large watercolors of almost always architectural subject depicting Rome and its surroundings, visited Greece. About 900 drawings and watercolors of that journey^[2] can still be found and two texts that tell the experience: the one published in 1819 by Dodwell, A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806 (with drawings by Simone Pomardi), and the one written by Pomardi and published in two volumes at Vincenzo Poggioli Chamber Printer in 1820; for the POLYSEMI Library, we chose and transcribed two chapters strictly pertinent to the Ionian Islands, taken from volume 2. Read more “Simone Pomardi” →

Raffaele Liberatore

Raffaele Liberatore, Viaggio pittorico nel Regno delle due Sicilie

Introduction by R. Nicolì

The text by Raffaele Liberatore, of which some parts relating to the Apulian area were selected for the POLYSEMI Digital Library, was published between 1829 and 1832 by Cuciniello and Bianchi. It is a vast work made up of three in folio volumes and 180 engravings whose aim was to illustrate the landscape and architectural beauties of the Kingdom after a long and scrupulous reconnaissance. Read more “Raffaele Liberatore” →

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Cosimo De Giorgi

Introduction by R. Nicolì

This text, here entirely reproduced for the POLYSEMI Library, is a pamphlet written by the renowned Salento scholar Cosimo De Giorgi, published by the Milan printing house Wilmant in 1872.^[1] Originally, it was a letter – dated 10^th October 1870 – the author sent to his colleague from Pisa Guido Mugnaini; its content is closely related to the Apulian Project Area, since it concerns a short excursion from Bari to Taranto by train. In the nineteenth century the inclination for local and limited itineraries, after a season of long journeys all over the peninsula, as the Grand Tour required, was new. Read more “Cosimo De Giorgi” →

Lorentzos Mavilis

Author: Mavilis, Lorentzos Mavilis

Date of Birth: 1860, Ithaca

Gender: Male

Biography: Lorenzos Mavilis was born on September 6, 1860 in Ithaca, where his father, Pavlos Mavilis, of Spanish descent, served as a judge. His mother, Ioanna Soufi, was a niece of Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias. Mavilis finished his high school studies in Corfu and studied for a year (1877-1878) at the University of Athens School of Philosophy. Read more “Lorentzos Mavilis” →

Aristotelis Valaoritis

Author: Valaoritis, Aristotelis Valaoritis

Date of Birth: 1824, Lefkada

Gender: Male

Biography: Aristotelis Valaoritis was born in Lefkada in 1824, the first-born son of Senator John Valaoritis and of the Kefallinian noblewoman Anastasia of the Tipaldus-Forrest family. He lived in Lefkada until his childhood in 1838, when he settled in Corfu to study at the Ionian Academy as an intern with Hellenist I. Economidis. Read more “Aristotelis Valaoritis” →

Iakovos Polylas

Author: Polylas, Iakovos Polylas

Date of Birth: 1825, Corfu

Gender: Male

Biography: Jakovos Polylas was born in Corfu in 1825, the son of the laywer and scholar George Polylas and Helen, the son of Nicholas Voulgaris. Jakovos Polylas came from a prominent Corfu family – but his origin is traced to Konstantinopolis. His mother was educated and taught him the first letters, as well as foreign languages (English, French, Italian, German) and ancient Greek. Read more “Iakovos Polylas” →

Andreas Kalvos

Author: Kalvos, Andreas Kalvos

Date of Birth: April 1792, Zakynthos

Gender: Male

Biography: Andreas Kalvos was born in Zakynthos, the first son of Corfu doctor Ioannis Calvos and Zakynthian noblewoman Adrian Roukani. After the breakup of his parents, his father left for Italy, and the poet departed in 1802 with his younger brother Nicolas to live with him. Kalvos as a student was first in Zakynthos and continued his studies in the Greek community in Livorno and Florence, where he became friend with Andreas Louriotis (1808). Read more “Andreas Kalvos” →

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