https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Andrea_Cornaro_%28historian%29Andrea Cornaro (historian) - Revision history2026-08-18T18:39:40ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrea_Cornaro_(historian)&diff=113188&oldid=prev>Cplakidas: added Category:Kingdom of Candia using HotCat2020-08-27T22:45:32Z<p>added <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Kingdom_of_Candia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Kingdom of Candia (page does not exist)">Category:Kingdom of Candia</a> using <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:HC" class="extiw" title="wp:HC">HotCat</a></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{more citations needed|date=June 2015}}{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Andrea Cornaro<br />
| native_name = Ανδρέας Κορνάρος<br />
| native_name_lang = gr<br />
| birth_name = [[Sitia]], [[Crete]]<br />
| birth_date = 1547<br />
| death_date = c. 1616 (aged 69)<br />
| burial_place = Monastery of St. Francis, [[Heraklion|Candia]]<br />
| nationality = [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]]<br />
| other_names = Andrea Corner<br />
| spouse = Carnarola Zen<br>Anezina Zen<br />
| parents = <br />
| mother = Issaveta (Zampia) Demezo<br />
| father = Giaccomo Cornaro<br />
| relatives = [[Vitsentzos Kornaros|Vicenzo Cornaro]] (brother)<br />
}}<br />
<br />
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}<br />
<br />
'''Andrea Cornaro''' (1547 – c. 1616) or '''Andreas Kornaros''' ({{lang-el|Ανδρέας Κορνάρος}}) was a [[Republic of Venice|Venetian]] aristocrat, historian and author.<br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Cornaro was a Venetian [[aristocrat]] born in Trapezonta [[Sitia]] on the island of [[Crete]]. He was the son of Giaccomo Cornaro and Issaveta (Zampia) Demezo and the brother of [[Vikentios Kornaros|Vincenzo Cornaro]]. He was married twice, first to Carnarola Zen until her death, and then to Anezina Zen.<br />
<br />
== Career ==<br />
<br />
He served as a commander in a galley naval ship and at the age of 24, he participated in the [[battle of Lepanto]] with his [[galley]] Cristo.<ref>Δημήτρης Αρβανιτάκης, Στέφανος Κακλαμάνης, Νίκος Καραπιδάκης, Αλεξάνδρα Κραντονέλλη, Βίκτωρ Θ. Μελάς, Leonora Navari (κείμενα). Το Ιόνιο πέλαγος. Χαρτογραφία και Ιστορία.16ος-18ος αιώνας.</ref><br />
<br />
His [[fiefdom]] included the villages of Voni, Zofori and [[Thrapsano]]<ref>Κρητικά Χρονικά Θ΄(1955) Ή διαθήκη τοϋ Αντρέα Κορνάρου</ref> in today's prefecture of [[Heraklion]].<br />
<br />
In 1591 he founded the [[Philological]] Academy of the Weird (L' Accademia degli Stravaganti) in [[Heraklion|Candia]] (now Heraklion).<ref>[[Giambattista Basile]]. ''[[Pentamerone|Lo cunto de li cunti]]'' (1891) page. 36</ref> He wrote hundreds of poems in Italian. He also wrote ''History of [[Crete]]'' (Historia Candiana). These works were saved but never printed.<br />
<br />
He died in 1616, at the age of 69. His burial took place in the [[monastery]] of Saint Francisco in [[Heraklion|Candia]].<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist|30em}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
*[http://www.sitia.gr/city/arts-crafts/literatur-theater.html Γράμματα και Τέχνες στην Σητεία] (in Greek)<br />
*[https://archive.today/20130217152103/http://www.economist.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5505:2008-10-08-11-32-05 Τo Iόνιο πέλαγος] (in Greek)<br />
<br />
{{authority control}}<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cornaro, Andrea}}<br />
[[Category:1547 births]]<br />
[[Category:1616 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Greek people of Venetian descent]]<br />
[[Category:Greek Roman Catholics]]<br />
[[Category:People from Sitia]]<br />
[[Category:Historians from the Republic of Venice]]<br />
[[Category:House of Cornaro|Andrea]]<br />
[[Category:Republic of Venice military personnel]]<br />
[[Category:Republic of Venice nobility]]<br />
[[Category:Republic of Venice poets]]<br />
[[Category:16th-century Italian writers]]<br />
[[Category:16th-century male writers]]<br />
[[Category:17th-century Italian writers]]<br />
[[Category:17th-century male writers]]<br />
[[Category:17th-century historians]]<br />
[[Category:16th-century historians]]<br />
[[Category:Republic of Venice people of the Ottoman–Venetian Wars]]<br />
[[Category:Kingdom of Candia]]</div>>Cplakidas