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- 10/12/1925 (Creation)
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23 x 18 cm
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Napoleon Lapathiotis (1888-1944) studied Law at the University of Athens. In 1917 he was in Egypt and met Cavafy. It is in the 1920s that he espoused the communist ideology. He wrote poems, novels, critiques, aesthetic texts, theatrical plays and articles, and was also involved in translation. He was one of the founders of the journal Igiso (1907).
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Handwritten letter by Napoleon Lapathiotis to Cavafy, on three pages of a bifolio. The second page is blank. Comments on a poem by the author, mimicking the style of Cavafy. Accompanied by a copy of a letter by Lapathiotis to L. Roussel on both sides of a sheet, with a quote pertaining to the same matter. (Athens)
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Greek
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Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations.
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Lapathiotis, Napoleon. “Letter by N. Lapathiotis to Cavafy”. Letter, 10.12.1925. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0094 (695), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF02-S01-SS01-F18-SF003-0094.
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Παλαιά ένδειξη ταξινόμησης
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- Lapathiotis, Napoleon (Authority)
- Thrylos, Alkis (Subject)
- Roussel, Louis (Subject)
- Cavafy, C. P. (Subject)
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Lapathiotis refers to Alkis Thrylos, and explains the reasons that led him to write a letter to Louis Roussel, which he encloses. Reference to the journals Libre and Nea Techni.