A Cettigne sul culmine d’un tetto, sovra il tetto del Principe Nicola, lugubremente gracchia una cornacchia: dicono, amico mio, che le cornacchie calamità preannunziano e sventure: per lo meno cosi da noi si dice, ma a quanto pare anche nel Montenegro poiché, quel verso lamentoso udendo,- s’affacciò…

1. Del Bene. Conferenza tenuta presso la redazione di CRIMINALIA il 3 agosto 1944 e pubblicata nei QUADERNI DI CRIMINALIA n. 7: La crisi e ìvalori dell’italianità, Milano, Fr. Bocca, 1944, pp. 35-43. Un richiamo allo spirito di rinuncia alla violenza e alla vendetta in nome del bene comune.2. Recens…

Kemi thanë perpara se popujt ballkanikë e paten fitue lirinë para shqiptarve. E kemi pa edhe se disa nder ta kjenë anmiqt ma të rrebtët të lirisë shqiptare. Nuk asht mirë me u a lanë perherë fajin tjerve per gjithshka ka ndodhë e keqe në historinë tonë. Do të kqyrim me diktue, pale a kemi pasë edhe …

Girolamo De Rada is universally credited with having given the greatest impetus to the development of the Albanian language in the 19th century. He is almost the promoter or creator of the Albanian Question, both political-national and linguistic-literary. It is true that long before him the bishop …

The article aims to retrace the role of the Council of Europe (CoE) in the fight against corruption. The analysis focuses on the institution of the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), mandated to monitoring and evaluating the implementation of CoE instruments in subiecta materia, according t…

The “Joint Investigation Teams” (JITs) are a new and effective tool for cooperation in criminal matters, based on a “spirit of solidarity” in carrying out cross-borders criminal investigations: synergistic forms of cooperation between both judicial andpolice authorities of the different Member State…

The New Pact on Migration and Asylum presented by the European Commission on 23 September 2020 aimes at representing a new start with regard to the whole of issues related to the management of the challenges posed by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers arriving in the European Union. High expectat…

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…

This year in Albania and abroad marks the celebration of the 600- birth anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg. His place and role in the Albanian and European history are of an extraordinary importance. He organized and led for circa a quarter a century the Albanian people war against the Ottom…

The present paper devotes some space to the period forerunning Gjergj Kastrioti's war and the following centuries, a very much discussed event among the local and foreign scholars. The quarrel between the Arbanense bishopric and the bishopric of Lezha (Alexiense-Lexiensi) about the appurtenance of a…

I take the title of this essay from the poem by Padraic Colum, entitled “Scanderbeg”, which I will be quoting in its entirety at its conclusion. Judged at least from a strictly grammatical perspective, the phrase “battling at the name of Scanderbeg” might perhaps appear to be a somewhat dubious one,…