Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — Poet Under a Ban. [ARTICLE]

Poet Under a Ban.

The Greek poet Andreas Laskaratos, whose death was announced a few weeks ago, was forty years ago placed, by the archbishop of Kephalonia, under a ban, which was not removed till last year, when the poet reached his ninetieth birthday. The ban was on account of a book entitled “The Secrets of Kephalonia, or Thoughts on the Family, Religion and Politics,” in which he wrote satires on popular superstitions and against the priesthood.