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Eleni Angeliki Loukia Cavafy was the poet’s niece, daughter of his brother Alexandros and of Thelxiopi Theodorou. She was born in 1902 in Alexandria (Egypt), where she finished school. She lost her parents at a very young age (her father when she was three and her mother when she was nine) and was raised by her mother’s family. She was married to Massimo Coletti, with whom she had one son, Alexandros. The family lived mostly in Italy and, at times, in Egypt. She died in Rome in 1970.
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Christodoulos S. Christodoulidis was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1902. In 1924 the Communist Party of Greece (of which he was a member, using the pseudonym “Alexis”), helped him move to Moscow where he studied Political Science. He then settled in Greece but returned to the Soviet Union and became a party official. He was executed during the period of the Great Purge (1938); his name was cleared in 1956.
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Dimitrios P. Charitatos was born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1910. A polyglot, he studied Philosophy, Law and Political Science in Paris and in The Hague. He lived and worked in Alexandria, where he met Cavafy and joined his circle. He moved to Athens in 1962 and worked for the Aluminium of Greece and as a public relations consultant. He died in 1993.
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Georgios P. Charitakis (1885-1943) was a lawyer and an economist as well as an active member of Greece’s political, social and intellectual life. He wrote articles and studies on economic, historical and literary matters. One of his works was devoted to Cavafy. He served as minister in the governments of Pangalos and Eftaxias (1926) and in 1920 he was appointed prefect of Thessaloniki (Greece).
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The Cercle Artistque was an Art Salon founded in Cairo (27 Madabegh Street) in the late 19th century. It was presided by an old inhabitant of the city, the Italian ophthalmologist Onofrio Abbate Pasha. Artistic exhibitions were held annually during Ramadan. The first such exhibition to be mentioned in the local press dates to 1896.
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