Georgios Chortatzis

Georgios Chortatzis (c. 1545–1610)^[1] was a Greek dramatist in Cretan verse. 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.^[2] His best known work is Erofili (or Erophile), a tragedy set in Egypt.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Norman Davies (1996). Europe: A History. Oxford University Press. p. 562. ISBN 0198201710.
^ Robert Browning (1983). Medieval and Modern Greek. Cambridge University Press. pp. 90–91. ISBN 0521299780.

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Name	Chortatzis, Georgios
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Date of birth	1545
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Date of death	1610
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