Andreas Laskaratos

Andreas Laskaratos (Greek Ανδρέας Λασκαράτος; born May 1, 1811 in Lixouri; † 23 or July 24, 1901 in Argostoli ) was a satirical writer and critic. As a reconnaissance and moralist, he found his opponents and view objects mainly in the ranks of the Church and the aristocracy of his native island of Kefalonia. He wrote in Greek and Italian.

Biography

Andreas was born as a son of the family Tirpado (or Greek Typaldos ), a noble family, which originally came from Naples. He soon took off his family name and henceforth worked under the stage name Andreas Laskaratos. Initially he founded in Pitsata in Lixouri a farm to explore new methods of cultivation, but soon turned to the literature on. From 1844, he managed the extensive property assets of the family. 1845 appeared Lixouri 1836. His best known work is The Mysteries of Kefalonia, a socially critical work.

Laskaratos was excommunicated, which he made ​​fun: He asked to excommunicate the shoes of his children, because he had no money to buy them new, in allusion to a belief, the body of buried excommunicated would not dissolve.