Tag: Famous Albanians

On October 23, 1871, in Fishta of Zadrima was born one of the greatest Albanians ever, At Gjergj Fishta, the Franciscan fraternity, teacher, writer, translator, and also chairman of the committee for drafting the Albanian alphabet in the Congress of Manastir, member of the Permeti government delegation at the Versailles Conference and the Vice-President of the Albanian legislature in 1921.

Giulio Variboba (Arbërisht: Jul Variboba) was an Arbëresh poet that gave an important contribution to the literature in the Albanian language. Variboba was born in 1725 in San Giorgio Albanese in the province of Cosenza to a family originally from the Mallakastra region of southern Albania. He studied at the Corsini seminary in San Benedetto Ullano, a center of learning and training for the priesthood of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church. This seminary, founded in 1732 by Pope Clement XII, affected the cultural advancement of the Arbëresh of Calabria in the eighteenth century similar to that of the Greek seminary of Palermo for the Arbëresh of Sicily. Variboba, one of its first students, was ordained as a priest in 1749 and returned to his native San Giorgio to assist his elderly fathe...