Wannabe despot, dashing diplomat or boring back-office swot ? Greece’s founding father divides (…)

He built modern Greece from the ground up, but Ioannis Kapodistrias remains a controversial figure. A new biopic throws light on this overlooked titan of European history On a hilltop in central Corfu, a marble bust carved in the classical style gazes skyward, lean, fine-featured and composed (…)