Marin Barleti was a historian, humanist and Roman Catholic priest from Shkodër. He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra.
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Marin Barleti was a historian, humanist and Roman Catholic priest from Shkodër. He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra. Barleti is better known for his second work, a biography on Skanderbeg, translated into many languages in the 16th to the 20th centuries.
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deceased
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Lived 1450 to 1513 · aged 63
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