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 vincenzo cornaro
vitsentzos kornaros

vitsentzos or vikentios kornaros -lrb- or -rrb- or vincenzo cornaro -lrb- march 29 , 1553 -- 1613/1614 -rrb- was a cretan poet , who wrote the romantic epic poem `` erotokritos '' .
he wrote in vernacular greek , and was a leading figure of the cretan renaissance .
vitsentzos kornaros is considered to be the greatest of all the cretan poets and one of the most significant and influential figures in the entire course of greek poetry .
the son of a venetian-cretan aristocrat and a scion of the noble venetian family of cornaro , he was born near sitia , crete in 1553 .
later , when he married , he came to live in candia -lrb- now heraklion -rrb- where he joined the accademia dei stravaganti .
kornaros died in 1613 -lrb- or 1614 -rrb- , just before his contemporaries , william shakespeare and miguel de cervantes .
