Onassis Cavafy Archive

REFERENCE CODE:

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GR-OF CA SING-S01-F01-0003 (1618)

TITLE:

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Text of the lecture by A. Singopoulo

DATE(S):

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[1920]

LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION:

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Item

EXTENT AND MEDIUM:

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28 x 22 cm

FORMER REFERENCE CODE:

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Αρχείο Σεγκόπουλου_Α1

NAME OF CREATOR(S):

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[Singopoulo, Alekos D.]

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

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Manuscript by Alekos Singopoulo on the recto of 43 sheets and papers of various sizes. Blank verso. Page numbering 1 to 44, corrected on some of the pages. Pages 25-28 are missing, as well as the end of the text. The papers include: clipping from the newspaper Nea Zoi (1912) with poems by Malakasis and Ugo Foscolo, pp. 153-154; clipping from an issue of the O Noumas (1920) with fragment of a poem; the poem “Ithaca”, printed on two sheets in 1917; printed broadsheet with Cavafy’s poem “Dangerous” (1919). Singopoulo’s text is preceded by an unnumbered sheet with the poem “Fthinoporini Fysi”. This is the text of a lecture delivered by Singopoulo on 10/6/1920 at the hall of the Greek Secondary School Alumni Association (of the Averoff Secondary School and the Salvageios School of Commerce), on the work by seven Modern Greek poets.

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CC BY-SA 4.0 Cavafy Archive Onassis Foundation

LANGUAGE AND SCRIPT NOTES:

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Greek

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

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Writing in ink and pencil. Watermarks: Abondance, Navarre, Typewriting Parchment. Tears and wears.

RELATED WORKS BY C. P. CAVAFY:

Reference to the works of C. P. Cavafy that are directly related to the described digital object, followed by their number of entry in the C. P. Cavafy Bibliography (ed. by D. Daskalopoulos).

“Comprehension” >Α153
“Dangerous” >Α123
“Ithaca” >Α122

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

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In his lecture, Singopoulo approaches in an interpretative and occasionally comparative way the work of Palamas, Cavafy, Gryparis, Papantoniou, Porfyras, Malakasis and Mavilis.

Journals:

Nea Zoi

Newspapers:

Athinai

Works by C. P. Cavafy:

"Comprehension"

"Dangerous"

"Ithaca"