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Bogdani. ( Italian: Pietro Bogdano; 1627 [4] – 6 December 1689) was the most original writer of Old Albanian literature. He was author of the Cuneus Prophetarum ( The Band of the Prophets ), 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in ( Gheg) Albanian (i.e. not a translation). He organized a resistance against the Ottomans ...
BS1198 .B6316. Cuneus Prophetarum ( Albanian: Çeta e profetëve, English: The Band of the Prophets) is a philosophical, theological and scientific treatise written by Pjetër Bogdani, an Albanian [1] philosopher, originally published in Padua in 1685 in Albanian and Latin. It is considered to be the most prominent work of early Albanian ...
The National Library of Kosovo has 1,890,194 library units, with 475,324 titles, 382,806 of which are books, 281,591 are magazines, 984,022 newspapers and 241,775 other units. Between 2004 and 2009 the library was enriched with 30,000 new titles. [ 19 ] In 2013 the number of the library's collections reached 2 million units.
The Shirgj Church (Albanian: Kisha e Shirqit/Shirgjit ), also known as the Monastery of Saints Sergius and Bacchus ( Albanian: Manastiri i Shën Shirgjit dhe Bakut ), is a ruined former Benedictine monastery in the village of Shirgj on the river Buna in northern Albania. The church was built by Serbian Queen Helen of Anjou in 1290, dedicated to ...
Pjetër Bogdani (1630 – 1689), Catholic bishop and writer, author of the first Albanian work in prose. Papa Nikollë Filja (1691 – 1769), priest and writer. Nicoleta Kenini (2005-), writer and priest; Mons.
Bogdani's work is a theological-philosophical treatise that considers with originality, by merging data from various sources, principal issues of theology, a full biblical history and the complicated problems of scholasticism, cosmogony, astronomy, pedagogy, etc. Bogdani brought into Albanian culture the humanist spirit and praised the role of ...
In 1841, three Jesuits arrived in the city of Shkodër in northern Albania. The three Jesuits were Vincenzo Basile, Giuseppe Guagliata, and Salvatore Bartoli. [5] [6] Vincenzo Basile was the founder of the Albanian Jesuit mission. [7] According to 20th century Jesuit scholar Giuseppe Valentini, Guagiliata's mother was of Arbëresh descent and ...
Toma Raspasani. Toma Raspasani ( Italian: Tomasso Raspassani, c. 1648-1718) was an Albanian Franciscan friar and vicar, subordinate Pjetër Bogdani, Archbishop of Skopje, with whom he organized an Albanian pro-Austrian movement that would fight in the Great Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire .