He was born in Zakynthos in 1778, of Italian father and Greek mother and grew up in Venice. He was an active member of the political and artistic movements and wrote lyrical plays and novels, following the neo-classical style of his era. Despite his living in Europe, he wrote: “I will not forget, ever, that I was born by a Greek mother, I drank the milk of a Greek nanny and saw the first beams of sunlight on the limpid and green Zakynthos, where the verses of Homer and Theokritos that praised it, still echo”.  He is considered one of the classic Italian poets and his book “Dei sepolcri” (“Graves”) is one of the most read collections of poems. He died in England in 1827 and his bones lie in Firenze at the church of Santa Croce.

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