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Vital Expression (English language edition) (Paperback)
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Vital Expression (English language edition) (Paperback)
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oannis Makriyannis (1797-1864) was a Greek politician and author,
best known today for his Memoirs. Starting from humble origins, he
joined the Greek struggle for independence, achieving the rank of
general and leading his men to notable victories. Following Greek
independence, he had a tumultuous public career, playing a
prominent part in the granting of the first Constitution of the
Kingdom of Greece and later being sentenced to death and pardoned.
Despite his important contributions to the political life of the
early Greek state, general Makriyannis is mostly remembered for his
Memoirs. Aside from being a source of historical and cultural
information about the period, it led Nobel laureate Giorgos Seferis
to call Makriyannis 'one of the greatest masters of Modern Greek
prose'. hese aquarelles, a series of 24 paintings, vividly depict
episodes from the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and from the
Memoirs. Painted by Panayiotis and Dimitrios Zografou from Sparta,
the series belonged to King Otto of Greece, the first monarch of
'modern' Greece. They were bought by Joannes Gennadius (1844-1932)
in Rome in 1909. This volume from Kapon Editions, in association
with the Gennadius Library, includes historical documents along
with texts that look at Makriyannis - the 'hero of the Greek War of
Independence' - as well as Joannes Gennadius (1844-1932) the Greek
diplomat, book collector, writer and benefactor, founder of the
Gennadius Library now housed in The American School of Classical
Studies at Athens.
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