Editing Zakynthos (section)

===Literature===
[[File:Zakynthos-faneromeni-church01.jpg|thumb|Faneromeni church, Zakynthos town]]
Since Zakynthos was under the rule of the Venetian Republic, it had closer contact with Western literary trends than other areas inhabited by Greek people.

An early literary work from the island is the ''Rimada'', a 16th-century romance in verse about [[Alexander the Great]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moennig|first1=Ulrich|chapter=A Hero without Borders: 1. Alexander the Great in Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek Tradition|pages=159–89|editor1-first=Carolina |editor1-last=Cupane|editor2-first=Bettina|editor2-last=Krönung |title=Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond|date=2016|publisher=Brill |location=Leiden|isbn=9789004307728|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-N8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA180}}</ref> Notable early writers include Tzanes Koroneos, author of ''Andragathemata of Bouas'', a work of historical fiction;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.early-modern-greek.org/archives/580 |title=Νέα έκδοση: Roberta Angiolillo: Tzane Koroneos. Le gesta di Mercurio Bua, Edizioni dell'Orso Alessandria 2013 (book review) |publisher=early-modern-greek.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-first=Roberta |editor-last=Angiolillo |title=Tzane Koroneos. Le gesta di Mercurio Bua |publisher=Edizioni dell'Orso |location=Alessandria |year=2013 |isbn=978-88-6274-458-4}}</ref> [[Nikolaos Loukanis]], a 16th-century Renaissance humanist;<ref name="Merry2004">{{cite book |author=Bruce Merry |title=Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-lr20SuvfIC&pg=PA192 |year=2004 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-30813-0 |page=192}}</ref> Markos Defaranas (1503–1575), possibly the author of the ''Rimada'';<ref name="Greene2010">{{cite book |author=Molly Greene |title=Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7syb4WH8NYAC&pg=PA37 |date= 2010 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-14197-8 |pages=37–}}</ref> Pachomios Roussanos (1508–1553), a scholar and theologian;<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Benisis |first1=Marios |title=Ο ΠΑΧΩΜΙΟΣ ΡΟΥΣΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ ΤΟΥ ΕΡΓΟ |year=2006}}</ref> and Antonio Catiforo (1685–1763), a grammarian and satirist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.idref.fr/137746016 |title=Catiforo, Antonio (1685–1763)}}</ref><ref name="Losacco2003">{{cite book |author=Margherita Losacco |title=Antonio Catiforo e Giovanni Veludo: interpreti di Fozio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x6Ku3zMICf4C&pg=PA121 |year=2003 |publisher=EDIZIONI DEDALO |isbn=978-88-220-5807-2 |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.fupress.net/index.php/cromohs/article/view/15468/14664 |title=Diaspora ortodossa e rinnovamento culturale: il caso dell'abate greco-veneto Antonio Catiforo (1685–1763) |first=Angela |last=Falcetta |journal=Cromohs |doi=10.13128/Cromohs-15468 |issue=15 |year=2010 |pages=1–24}}</ref>

Towards the end of the 18th century, the so-called [[Heptanese School (literature)|Heptanese School of Literature]] developed, consisting mainly of lyrical and satirical poetry in the vein of Romanticism prevalent throughout Europe at the time. It also contributed to the development of modern Greek theatre. An important poet of this school was Zakynthian [[Dionysios Solomos]]; another was [[Nikolaos Koutouzis]], who also figures prominently in the Heptanese School of Painting. Others include [[Georgios Tertsetis]] (1800–1873), politician, poet, and historian.

The 1998 novel 'Fugitive Pieces' by Canadian author Anne Michaels includes a section set on Zakynthos during the Nazi occupation. The young Jewish narrator, Jakob Beer, is hidden in a rural home. He notes that while he enjoyed the luxury of a room, 'thousands were stuffed into baking stoves, sewers, garbage bins. In the crawlspaces of double ceilings, in stables, pigsties, chicken coops'. The narrative refers to Mayor Karrer and Archbishop Chrysostomos's refusal to collaborate with the Germans.<ref name="Michaels1998">{{cite book |author=Anne Michaels |title=Fugitive Pieces |year=1998 |publisher=Vintage |isbn=978-0-679-77659-8 |page=194}}</ref>