Veprat e lavdishme të Skënderbeut

by Dhimitër Frangu, Lek Previzi (translator)

Genres: Renaissance, Medieval History, Medieval, Albanian Literature

220 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1480

About the author

Demetrio Franco it is not known of him the date of birth or death. It is a Historical figure and historian. Demetrio Franco, known by the Albanian neologism of Dhimitër Frangu,was born in Drivasto (Drisht) ofa Catholic family. He was a cousin of Paulus Angelus, who was archbishop of Durrës and a close collaborator of Scanderbeg. Franco it was contemporary and in the service of Scanderbeg, and himself accompanied Scanderbeg to Italy in the winter of 1466–1467. After the death of Scanderbeg on 1468, Franco moved to Tivar and then to Venice, where he wrote in Latin and published the biography of Scanderbe, on 2 April 1480, at the printing house of the German Erhard Ratdolf 12 years after Scanderbeg's death. His foremost work is considerered to be "Gli illustri e gloriosi gesti e vittoriose imprese fatte contro i Turchi dal Signor Don Georgio Castriotto detto Scanderbeg, principe d' Epiro", published also with the title "Comentario de le cose de' Turchi, et del S. Georgio Scanderbeg, principe d' Epyrro", a biography of the national hero of Albania Skanderbeg. (Wiki)