Girolamo de Rada
Girolamo de Rada (known in Albania as Jerome de Rada; * November 19, 1814, † 1903) was an Albanian- Italian ( Arbëresh ) writer.
Life
De Rada was born the son of a parish priest of the Byzantine Rite in Macchia Albanese (Calabria ). He attended San Demetrio Corone in high school and then studied at the request of his father in 1834 in Naples Jura. Early he became interested in literature and the Albanian folklore and he collected songs and poems of Arbëresh.
1836 de Rada published his first major work from his own pen. It was the Këngët e Milosaos ( " The Songs of Milosao " ), in the de Rada the love story of a certain Milosao, said to have been the son of a prince of Shkodra in the 15th century, with Rina, the daughter of a shepherd, says. For this poem, he had been inspired by ethnic Albanian poetry. Soon after, de Rada had to interrupt his law degree because of a broken out in Naples cholera epidemic and he returned to Calabria.
In his soon following publications he worked again legendary materials from the medieval Albanian history. 1839 was released the first version of the Canti di Serafina Thopia storici Albanesi, moglie del principe Nicola Ducagino ( "Historical Albanian songs of Serafina Thopia, wife of prince Nikola Dukagjin " ) and Skënderbeu i pafat ( " The unfortunate Skanderbeg ").
During this time, de Rada came repeatedly into conflict with the authorities of the Bourbon Kingdom of Naples, because he had expressed sympathy with the liberal Italian Risorgimento nationalist movement in his works. And indeed, he felt the Italian liberalism spiritually connected. 1846 published de Rada I Numidi ( " The Numidians "), an Italian -language historical tragedy that he reworked 50 years later to a stage play. In the revolutionary year 1848, the writer, the newspaper L' Albanese d' Italia, a bilingual Italian - Albanian publication, and the first newspaper founded at all, were printed in the Albanian-language article ( Fiamuri i Arbërit ).
By de Rada drew on historical subjects of Albania from the vorosmanischen time, he was one of the intellectual pioneers of the Albanian independence movement in the early 20th century. Not least because he has always been the Albanians as one of its most important writers. The author himself, however, has never visited Albania.
Works
- Poetry Albanesi del secolo XV. Canti di Milosao, figlio del despota di Scutari (Albanian Këngët e Milosao, 1836).
- Canti di Serafina Thopia storici Albanesi, moglie del principe Nicola Ducagino (Naples 1839);
- I Numidi (ibid. 1846).
- Opera Omnia di Girolamo De Rada. 3 vols, 2006. ISBN 88-498-1476-3 (modern Alb. - ital. Werkausgabe ).