If the history of a particular figure is not recounted across multiple languages, then that figure is destined to remain obscure beyond the geographical boundaries of his or her own ethnic group. In 1968, at the Second Albannological Conference dedicated to George Castriot Scanderbeg, on the 500th a…

It is of great interest to report a synthesized profile of the social status of Albanian women in the XIV – XV century, in the main civilization centers, such as Shkodra, Durrës, Ulqin, Tivar etc. In distinction from the data of the customary law, typical of the rural and mountainous areas of the Al…

I was suggested to participate in the second session of the International Albanological Conference in the format lectio magistralis. For some days and weeks, I was somewhat undecided whether to hold this presentation, or another one.Decades ago, since my dissertation on the Albanian heroic legendary…

1. Il percorso degli studi sulle immigrazioni levantine. - 2. Il lavoro e lo spirito associativo degli immigrati. - 3. I freni legislativi. - 4. Le condizioni giuridiche della cittadinanza. - 5. La distinzione in ceti dei cittadini e il diritto di governo della città. -6. Un laboratorio dell’integra…

 In the seventies of the past century, Pier Paolo Pasolini considered the Albanian phenomenon “an anthropologic miracle”, as he openly confessed the surprise he was caught by while listening to his interlocutor, the priest, and the Albanian Albanologist Zef (Giuseppe) Faraco. For the great Ital…

This paper investigates the appropriation of the legendary figure of George Castriota Scanderbeg by Enver Hoxha since the earliest days of Albania’s communist regime. To this end, I am analyzing from an iconological perspective the juxtaposition of Enver Hoxha and George Castriota Scanderbeg’s image…

Sulla punta della penisola albanese di Kepi i Rodonit (Capo Rodone)1, tra due alture su una spiaggetta lungo la costa adriatica prospiciente la riviera pugliese, sorge un edificio di culto cristiano (figg.1-3) (13 x 6m) di stile romanico-gotico2 datato metà XIII sec. Presenta decorazione architetton…

In the XIV-XV centuries, the Republic of Venice, or the Seignory as it is otherwise known, was a powerful political and military state of the time. It raised and strengthened as an aristocratic merchant republic in the XI century and had a powerful maritime fleet to controll the stocks circulation i…

There are, in my view, three aspects to the history of Skenderbeg in the United States that need to be considered in order to put this topic into its proper perspective. These are, first, the propagation of the deeds and exploits of Albania’s national hero into Europe, and more specifically into Eng…

The relations of King Alfonso V of Aragon and I of Naples with the Albania of Skanderbeg during the last part of his reign, in the forties and fifties of the fifteenth century, cannot be understood regardless of what has been called in historiography for more than a century his "Eastern policy". Thi…

The works of one of the best Serbian playwrights, Jovan Sterija Popović (1806-1856) about the Albanian hero George Castriot Skanderbeg (1405-1468) merit much greater consideration than what they have so far received from Southern Slav scholars.Sterija is generally considered to be the founder of Ser…

The reason I have been invited to this symposium dedicated by Albania to the important personality of George Kastriotis the so-called Scanderbeg is a recent discovery I made, an unknown biography in Greek, half a century older than the one known until now as “the first Greek biography of Kastriotis”…