Revista Shejzat - Pleiades, viti VI, 2022, numrat 3

Monica Genesin – Rovena Sakja

L’Archivio Tagliarini e il ruolo della rivista “Drini” per la conoscenza del patrimonio culturale albanese.

Monica Genesin – Rovena Sakja

L’Archivio Tagliarini e il ruolo della rivista “Drini” per la conoscenza del patrimonio culturale albanese.

Tagliarini’s archive and the role played by the magazine “Drini” in
publicizing Albanian cultural heritage

Keywords: Franco Tagliarini, Albanian cultural heritage.

The article examines the story of Franco Tagliarini’s archive dedicated to the promotion of Albanian cultural heritage. Witnessing to his father’s activity in Albania during the Fascist era, the archive treasures rather important documents.
Photographic documentation forms an important part of the archive which is of particular interest to scholars of various disciplines. In the archive resides also documentation of legislation, displaying Tagliarini’s intense activity in the construction of a tourist network in Albania. The collection of the magazine “Drini – Rivista del turismo albanese”, official organ of the General Directorate of Press, Propaganda and Tourism, is the first magazine dedicated to tourism in the history of Albanian press and the first successful attempt to introduce Albania into the European tourist network. “Drini” is of special interest to scholars of history, archeology and ethnography. It also helps retrace the birth of cultural tourism in Albania.

Roberta Belli Pasqua

Documentare il passato, divulgare la conoscenza.
Note sulla fotografia archeologica italiana nell’Albania della prima metà del Novecento.

Roberta Belli Pasqua

Documentare il passato, divulgare la conoscenza.
Note sulla fotografia archeologica italiana nell’Albania della prima metà del Novecento.

Recording the past – spreading knowledge.
Notes on the Italian archaeologic photography in Albania in the first half of the 20th century

Keywords: archaeological photography, archives of photography, Albania,
Phoinike, Buthrotum.

The essay forwards a short examination of the use of the Italian archaeological photography in Albania in the first part of the 20th century. Luigi Maria Ugolini’s exploring journeys in the 1920s and the inauguration of the archaeological missions at Phoinike and Buthrotum in the country offered the opportunity to take pictures witnessing its archaeological riches. A blend of scientific discipline and propaganda-driven purposes, the images convey the commitment of the Italian archaeologists to unearthing ancient remains in southern Albania.
The Italian invasion of Albania, the founding of the Albanian Department for the Press, Propaganda and Tourism and the sprouting of other subordinate bodies provided a push forwards for this kind of documentation whose aim was to popularise these areas and promote tourism.
Destined to enrich special archives, the photographs were also used to illustrate scientific and informative publications, for postcards and publicity as well. The photos feature overall views, often taken from the air, individual monuments, artefacts etc. Using photography in archaeological excavations in Albania formed part of a wider backdrop. In fact it had been used in the 19th century and by now it already was a fundamental tool of archaeology.

Lucia Nadin

L’Albania nella cultura ludica della Repubblica di Venezia, tra game e play (secc. XVII – XVIII).

Lucia Nadin

L’Albania nella cultura ludica della Repubblica di Venezia, tra game e play (secc. XVII – XVIII).

Albania in the ludic culture of the Republic of Venice, between game and play in the 17th-18th centuries.

Keywords: Republic of Venice, ludic culture, didactic games, Scanderbeg,
Scutari.

In the 17th century Venice became the European capital of gambling, especially after the opening of the earliest gambling hall, the Ridotto in 1638. From a cultural point of view, a large space was reserved to ludic themes both through theoretic reflections and tools for didactic purposes. Deck of cards and board games were used to vehicle the agon to knowledge by transposing into images the most disparate disciplines such as history, geography, mythology, genealogy, religious culture, military art. Albania as well and especially Shkodër and Scanderbeg were present in strange games connected with the story of the St Mark’s Most Serene Republic.

Carlo Pardi Summa

Le Memorie di Ugo Sola Un diplomatico italiano amico di Zog e dell’Albania.

Carlo Pardi Summa

Le Memorie di Ugo Sola Un diplomatico italiano amico di Zog e dell’Albania.

The Memoirs of Ugo Sola, Italian diplomat and friend to King Ahmet Zogu and Albania

Keywords: Ugo Sola, Albania, Salvatore Contarini, Ahmet Zogu, Pietro
Pastorelli.

Ugo Sola headed the Italian Legation to Albania from 1927 to 1930. He was arguably the best embodiment of the idea that the most convenient way to provide security to Italy on the Adriatic coast was to favour the birth of Albania as a new state and independent ally. Sola worked persistently to establish a relationship of faith and mutual respect between Ahmet Zogu and Mussolini and at the same time to strengthen the economic and financial bonds between the two nations. In the aftermath he resumed his contacts with king Zogu in Egypt and met with him frequently in France, where both resided.
In those years, besides being king’s friend he also was one of his advisors on financial problems and political decisions regarding Zogu’s position as a sovereign in exile. Found by chance, his Memoirs provide an opportunity to re-consider such a hard-working diplomat as well as to describe the decisive event which in 1925 made Ugo Sola deal with Albanian questions.

Arsim Canolli

Famulli dhe famullori

Arsim Canolli

Famulli dhe famullori

Famulli and Famullori

Keywords: godchild, crypto-christianity, religious amphibianism, animal anthropology, ethnography.

The essay focuses on the famulli and famullori, the first standing for godchild. Inexistent in English, the second term in –or(i) describes a noun derived from famulli. They both form part of the rite of the socalled “christening of the cattle” a traditional lore in Kosova. The rite expresses a unique closeness between humans and animals seen as a rite of “laramania”- the process of becoming a crypto-Christian and that of the religious amphiabianism amongst the Albanians.
The essay opens with an anthropoanimalistic argument to later develop onto a wider view on the relationship between the humankind and the animal world. The study then goes on to offer an interpretation of the act of “taking the godchild”, one of the most singularly bizarre rites in this relationship, which in turn asks for a specific interpretation in close relation with the phenomenon of crypto-christianity amongst the Albanians.

Emine Sadiku

Magjia e poezisë transcendentale.
“K***” e A. Pushkinit dhe “Kristal” e I. Kadaresë – dy perla të lirikës botërore.

Emine Sadiku

Magjia e poezisë transcendentale.
“K***” e A. Pushkinit dhe “Kristal” e I. Kadaresë – dy perla të lirikës botërore.

The magic of transcendental poetry

Keywords: transcendental poetry, philosophical-literary interpretation; homo-viator, symbol, metaphor, polyhedral subject.

The following analysis of Ismail Kadare’s poem Crystals is based on the transcendental literary-philosophical theory. Such reading stems from the belief that the poem (as well as Pushkin’s poem “K ***”) was written in the transcendental style. By identifying the typical transcendental features as indicated in F. Schlegel’s theory and in that of later authors, we have sometimes interpreted philosophically, sometimes aesthetically (or in the interaction of methods) the text with the content, form, and means of linguistic-literary expression.
Our interpretation consists in investigating and describing features such as melancholy, real-ideal ratio, endless reflection, polyhedral subject, substance-process ratio, etc.