Georgios Chortatzis

Georgios Chortatzis
Cover of Erofili (1637 edition)
Born	c.1550 Crete (then Kingdom of Candia)
Died	c.1660 ?
Nationality	Greek
Education	Accademia dei Vivi
Known for	Literature
Notable work	Erofili, Katsourbos, Panoria
Movement	Cretan Renaissance, Cretan literature

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

1. Norman Davies (1996). Europe: A History. Oxford University Press. p. 562. ISBN 0-19-820171-0.
2. Robert Browning (1983). Medieval and Modern Greek. Cambridge University Press. pp. 90–91. ISBN 0-521-29978-0.