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Tho[ma]s. Smart Hughes Late Fellow of Saint John’s and now Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge.
Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania Illustrated with engravings of maps scenery plans & c. In two volumes Vol. I.
London Printed for J. Mawman 39 Ludget Street. 1820. Library of the Hellenic Parliament
REVEREND THOMAS SMART HUGHES
(1786-1847), a classical scholar educated at Cam- bridge, arrived in Greece in 1812 and travelled main- ly in the Peloponnese and Athens.
In 1814, together with the architect and antiquari- an Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), he visited Ioannina, which he describes in detail. In this illus- tration (engraved by J. Smith after a drawing by C.R. Cockerell), Greek fighters dance on the islet of the Ioannina Lake, with the city in the background.
He was received by Ali Pasha and gives a lot of re-
liable information about him, as well as about his contemporary Epirus. He also witnessed the dra- matic events at Parga in May 1817, when Ali Pasha acquired the town from the British and its inhabi- tants fled to the Ionian Islands to escape his fury.
Hughes aptly and accurately depicts the social and intellectual circumstances of the Greek world; though detailed, his account never loses its literary merit.
A fervent Philhellene, he actively supported the Greek Struggle when the Revolution broke out, circulating pamphlets in London.
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