Giuseppe Schirò was an Italian neo-classical poet, linguist, publicist and folklorist of Arbëresh descent. His literary work marked the transition from the Arbëresh language to modern Albanian literature in Italy.
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The novelist Cristina Mandalà (1856 - 1919) at the College of Maria, cousin and first teacher of Schirò
The hymn "O mburonjë e Shqipërisë" (O protector of Albania), collected in Canti Tradizionali ed altri Saggi delle Colonie Albanesi di Sicilia (1907)
«Pro Albania» demonstration in Piana degli Albanesi in 1911 (in the center the poet)
Marble plaque placed on the house of the Italo-Albanian poet
Schirò on a 2015 stamp of AlbaniaWriters born in the 1860s 6
About this person
Giuseppe Schirò was an Italian neo-classical poet, linguist, publicist and folklorist of Arbëresh descent. His literary work marked the transition from the Arbëresh language to modern Albanian literature in Italy. He was a major protagonist of the Rilindja, the Albanian cultural awakening or Albanian Renaissance, in Italy.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1865 to 1927 · aged 61
Written about in
12 languages
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