Publishing House “Milosao” put in circulation summary “Rhapsody of a Arbëresh poem” collected from the greatest Girolamo de Rada and adapt in today by Albanian Agim Mato. The 200-page book is accompanied by an introduction by Professor Sadik Becko titled “Arberesh Reports – a Living Artistic Reality”, which analyzes some of the major Arbëresh cultural heritage ballads that made many poets and scholars of the time in which Published, to maximally estimate this legacy. At the end of the book, a fifty-page exhaustive study by renowned scholars from Kosovo, Professor Anton Nica Berisha, is published. From the beginning of the study, he quotes Paris’s Melusine magazine (1884), which states, among other things: “An astonishing originality, an expression that no longer exists in peoples who have an epic life or, at least, Their poetry serves the epopee. ” Antoni points out the importance of these rhapsodes in the entire Albanian culture in general, analyzes some of De Rada’s thoughts in his study “On Aesthetics Principles,” touches upon issues from the Homeric Era to Mystification, analyzes aspects of authenticity Songs, materialistic, artistic and artistic features, thematic-motivational world, epic storyline and lyrical narrative, metaphorical situations, etc. Custom Songs in today’s Albanian preserve freshness and originality, making that enjoyed by all generations of all moral codes readers of our people, preserved for centuries.
Born in 1814 in Maki, Calabria, he first taught at St. Anthony’s Coronet’s St. Adrian College. In 1834 he went to study justice in Naples, where he actively participated in the political and cultural movement of the time. In 1848 the Albanian newspaper “L’Albanese d’Italia” published the first, in which he expressed his views on the events of the time. After the failure of the revolution in 1848, the newspaper closed and disappointed retreated to his native village until the early 60’s. XIX. Starting from v. 1861, in the life of De Rada began a new phase when he appeared as one of the most talented figures of our National Renaissance. Following the treatise The Principles of Aesthetics (Principles of Aesthetics, 1861) published the works of the Albanian nation’s antiquity (“Antichità della nazione albanese”, 1864) and the Rhapsody of an Arbëresh poet (Rapsodie d’un poema albanese, 1866) An important role for the propagation of the Albanian national issue. Entered into correspondence with Albanian patriots and European cultural personalities sympathetic to Albania, he followed with lively interest the events in Albania. In 1878 he supported the Albanian League of Prizren and raised his voice against Albania’s earthly mutilation. A valuable contributor to the national issue gave the magazine “Flag Arbrit”, which was published in 1883-1885. In “Political Testament” (1902) expressed optimism on the future of Albania and its discontent with Italy’s imperialist policy toward the country of the ancients.
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