Author · Albania
Jeronim de Rada
Died in 1903
Girolamo De Rada was born on 29 November 1814 in Macchia Albanese, near San Demetrio Corone, in Calabria, the son of a Greek-rite priest. A pupil at the Italo-Albanian College of Sant'Adriano, he collected Arbëresh folk songs in his youth, then began studying law in Naples in 1834, until cholera interrupted his studies. In 1848, he founded the first newspaper in Albanian. From 1849 the first teacher of Albanian at the College of Sant'Adriano, he was removed from it from 1851 to 1859. Married in 1850, father of four children, he died in San Demetrio Corone on 28 February 1903.
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- PoetryKëngët e MilosaosJeronim de Rada · 1836not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain