Every anniversary of events or of big national personalities is always a good impetus to further reflect and deepen more in their study, to extract new point-of views in their less illuminated sides.The 550 anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti's death is such a great motive. Scanderbeg's war against the …

An adequate correlation between the historic and archaeological sources would help us to obtain new data about Scanderbeg epopee.This thing requires archaeological research in castles, fortresses or other structures, that chronologically refer to the period taken into examination. As it is only a 25…

The chronology of the written Albanian literature is above all related to the patchy texts and unique works from the content point-of-view, as each initial definition and of the presence in them of some textual elements defining the particularity and also the common thematic that makes possible a ge…

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…

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…

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”…

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,…

George Kastriot Skanderbeg is well-known World figure. In the Middle Ages he was the undisputed leader in the struggle against Ottomans not only in the territories of present-day Albania and northwestern parts of Macedonia but throughout the Balkans and even wider at least in Italy and Vatican. With…

The History of the Life and Deeds of Scanderbeg, Prince of the Epirotes (Historia De Vita Et Gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarvm Principis) by Marin Barleti (Marinus Barletius Scodrensis), was published in Rome in 1508. This basic work was translated from Latin into a number of European languages. Barleti…

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…