Best of Albanian Music [Part 6]

Dedicated to Jeronim De Rada

Before Albania had become a political entity, it was already a poetic reality in the works of Jeronim De Rada. His vision of an independent Albania grew in the second half of the nineteenth century from a simple desire to a realistic political objective to which he was passionately committed.

De Rada was the harbinger and first audible voice of the Romantic movement in Albanian literature, a movement which, inspired by his unfailing energy on behalf of national awakening among Albanians in Italy and in the Balkans, was to evolve into the romantic nationalism characteristic of the Rilindja period in Albania. His journalistic, literary and political activities were instrumental not only in fostering an awareness for the Arbëresh minority in Italy but also in laying the foundations for an Albanian national literature.

The most popular of his literary works is the above-mentioned Canti di Milosao (Songs of Milosao), known in Albanian as Këngët e Milosaos, a long romantic ballad portraying the love of Milosao, a fictitious young nobleman in fifteenth-century Shkodra (Scutari), who has returned home from Thessalonica. Here, at the village fountain, he encounters and falls in love with Rina, the daughter of the shepherd Kollogre. The difference in social standing between the lovers long impedes their union until an earthquake destroys both the city and all semblance of class distinction. After their marriage abroad, a child is born. But the period of marital bliss does not last long. Milosao's son and wife soon die, and he himself, wounded in battle, perishes on a riverbank within sight of Shkodra.

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[NYPD44]

E paperseritshme!

Magjepsese!

Te lumshin duart ore vella!

[shenmitrot]

de rada eshte ka katundi ime w shen mitri e maqi

[armando88v]

viva i arberesht siete grandi

[YdeckW]

Aren't we original? :D 

[cristina411]

Would really like to learn the language.. I sense extreme passion in this mans voice!

[labocam]

na doli kjo keng se kam degjuare me pare shum e vecant .mi dergo disa iformacione te lutem poi pate mundesi shum e bukur

[Aritasan]

Mikor ráakadtam erre a gyönyörű dalra és elkezdtem hallgatni, egyszerűen csak folyni kezdtek a könnyeim. Rá gondolok, akivel már jártunk Albániában és ahol annyi, de annyi jót kaptunk az "ottaniaktól", h örökre szívünkbe zártuk Őket.

[05115555]

t'falemnderit, shum kangetar i mir ky.

[shenmitrot]

me duket se kjo kenge e kendon pino cacozza nje artist shume i njohur te gjith arberia

[shenmitrot]

kjo kenge arbereshe eshte mix te gjuhat arberisht kalabriset te sila