Gabriele Dara
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Born | 8 January 1826 Palazzo Adriano, Province of Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy |
Died | 1885 (aged 59) Agrigento, Sicily, Italy |
Occupation | lawyer, publisher, politician, and poet |
Nationality | Italian |
Ethnicity | Arbëreshë |
Period | 1856–1880 |
Genre | Poetry |
Literary movement | Albanian National Awakening |
Notable works | The last lay of Bala (Albanian: Kënka e sprasme e Balës) |
Gabriele Dara (1826–1885) commonly known as Gavril Dara Junior (Albanian: Gavril Dara i Ri, Italian: Gabriele Dara il Giovane [1]) was an Arbëreshë politician and poet of the 19th century. He is regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
Life
Gabriele Dara was born on 8 January 1826 in Palazzo Adriano, a town in Sicily, southern Italy. His family was one of the first to migrate from Albania to Italy after Skanderbeg's death.[2] His grandfather Gabriele Dara the Elder was among the first collectors of Arbëreshë folklore, while his father Ndre or Andrea published a dictionary of fokloric terms.[3]
At an early age he learned Latin and ancient Greek. In Palermo he received a degree in law and practised in Agrigento. After the unification of Italy he held a variety of offices in Sicily.[4] At first he served as the first councillor of the prefecture of Palermo and from 1867 to 1869 as governor of Trapani, a town in western Sicily. From 1871 to 1874 he was the director of the liberal political magazine The Reform (Italian: La Riforma ). He died in 1885 in Agrigento.[5]
Work
His early works include verse in the Italian language and a poem in Arberesh dedicated to Saint Lazarus. Dara's best-known work is Kënka e sprasme e Balës (The last song of Bala) originally written in Arbëresh language and later translated into Italian.[4] Kënka e sprasme e Balës is a four-part epic romantic ballad containing nine cantos and recounts the adventures of Nik Peta and Pal Golemi, two Albanian heroes that lived in the era of the League of Lezhë.[4] It was first published in 1887 after his death in installments in the periodical Arbri i ri (Young Albania), published by Giuseppe Schirò. In July 1900 it was fully published in Arbëresh and Italian in the journal La Nazione albanese (The Albanian Nation).[4]
References
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