Lorentzos Mavilis

Lorentzos Mavilis
Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Greece)
Allegiance	Kingdom of Greece
Service/branch	Hellenic Army
Unit	Redshirts
Battles/wars	Greco-Turkish War (1897) Cretan Revolt Balkan Wars First Balkan War Battle of Driskos †
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Lorentzos Mavilis (

He was born in Ithaca and was of half-Spanish origin from his father who was a judge in the Ionian islands, and half-Greek from his local mother. His Spanish paternal grandfather, Don Lorenzo Mabili y Boulligny, was consul of Spain in Corfu and upon arriving in Greece, Hellenized his surname from Mabili to Mavilis. He studied philology and philosophy in Germany and started to compose poems and chess problems (chess was his other passion).

He was a great supporter of the

, he participated in the fighting with a group of Corfiot volunteers.

In 1909, he supported the

Greek Parliament with the Liberal Party, representing Corfu. As an MP, he took an active part in the dispute on the Greek language question, defending the use of the Demotic Greek against the Katharevousa literary language.^[1]

With the outbreak of the

I was expecting honours from this war, but not the honour to sacrifice myself for Greece![1]

Sources

• Kargakos, Sarandos (2012). Η Ελλάς κατά τους Βαλκανικούς Πολέμους (1912-1913) [Greece in the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)] (in Greek). Athens: Peritechnon.
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• Hibon, Roland, "Ἀνέκδοτα ἔργα τοῦ Μαβίλη ", Ἠπειρωτικὴ Ἑστία, 17, 200 (1968), σσ. 537–546
• "Νεοελληνική Ποιητική Ανθολογία", ΒΙΠΕΡ No. 100, εκδόσεις "Πάπυρος ΠΡΕΣΣ", Αθήναι, 1971
• "Ελληνική Ανθολογημένη Ποίηση", Γαβριήλ Πεντζίκης, εκδόσεις "Ινστιτούτο Διαδόσεως Ελληνικού Βιβλίου", Αθήνα, 1980
• Νούτσος Παναγιώτης, "O Λ. Mαβίλης ως συνοδοιπόρος των 'Kοινωνιολόγων' ", O Πολίτης, αρ. 44 (5 December 1997), 37–41
• Savinio, Alberto, Narrate, uomini, la vostra storia, εκδόσεις Adelphi, Milano, 1984, 133-147