Pjetër Bogdani

Pjetër Bogdani (in Cyrillic: ПетарБогдани ) (Gur I Hasit, close to Prizren, ~ 1630 - Priština 1689), known in Italian as Pietro Bogdano was a albano-Kosovan writer author of Cuneus Prophetarum ( the group of the prophets ), 1685, first book in prose primarily writes in Albanian.

Its life and its work

Bogdani was educated according to the traditions of the Catholic church, to which it dedicated all its energy. His/her uncle Andrea or Ndre Bogdani (~ 1600 - 1683) was Archevêque of Skopje and the author of a Latin grammar Albanian, now lost. One believes that Bogdani was initially educated by Franciscain S with Chiprovtsi (today in Bulgaria), then in the college illyrien of Loreto (Italy), like his predecessors Pjetër Budi and Frang Bardhi. Of 1651 with 1654, he was priest with Pult and of 1654 with 1656, he studied with the Congrégation for the evangelization of the people to Rome, where he was doctor in Philosophie and Théologie. In 1656, it became bishop of Shkodra. Moreover, he was the administrator of the Archbishop's palace of Antivari (Bar) until 1671.

During the tumultuous years of the war turco - Austrian, 1664 - 1669, it took refuge in the villages of Barbullush and Rjoll close to Shkodra. In 1677, it succeeded his/her uncle as archbishop of Skopje and administrator of the Serbia.

Its religious and patriotic enthusiasm made of it an enemy of Turkish and it had to flee in Raguse (Dubrovnik), then with Venice and Padoue, carrying its manuscripts with him. In Padoue, it was accepted by the cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo (1622 - 1697), for whom it had already worked in Rome. The cardinal was responsible for the Eastern ecclesiastical businesses, and it was thus interested by the Albanian culture. Moreover, it had founded a printing works with Padoue, the Tipografia del Seminario , with pig iron and cast iron Hébraïque S, Arab S and Armenian born.

After the publication of Cuneus Prophetarum , Bogdani turned over in the Balkans in March 1686; it spent there the following years in resistance against the armies of the Ottoman Empire, especially with the Kosovo. It came with a force from 6.000 Albanian soldiers to support the Austrian army which had arrived at Priština, and they accompanied it until Prizren. They were overcome there there by another adversary, the plague. He died of this disease in December 1689 with Priština.

Poetry

He published his vast theological treaty the Cuneus Prophetarum , in Padoue in 1685, Albanian and Italian with the assistance of the Barbarigo cardinal. Bogdani had finished the Albanian version ten years before, but the Propagation of the Faith required an Italian translation to be able to submit it to the critics of the Index.

Work was printed with characters Latin, but also some Cyrillic characters used by Pjetër Budi and Frang Bardhi. Bogdani had also a great interest by the Albanian language and he asked translations of the Gospels and other texts for his period the College of the Propagation of the Faith.

The Cuneus Prophetarum was published into two column parallels in Italian and Albanian and was divided into two volumes of four scales.

The first volume contains dedications in Latin, Albanian, Italian and Serb, and it includes a poem of his cousin Luca Bogdani and another of Luca Summa. This volume speaks about the Old Testament: I) God created the Homme, the II) Prophète S and their Méthaphore S on the advent of the Messie, the III) life of the prophets and its prophecies iv) the songs of the ten sibyls.

The second volume Of vita Jesu Christi salvatoris mundi speaks about the New Testament I) the life of Jesus, the II) miracles of Jesus, III) passion, iv) resurrection. It includes a translation of the Livre of Daniel, 9. 24-26, towards 8 languages: Latin, Greek, Syrian Armenian, , Hebrew, Arabic, Italian and Albanian, then a chapter on the Antichresis and a file of three pages on the Antichità beyond Put Bogdana .

The book was reprinted like 'the infallibile verità beyond cattolica fede , Venice 1691 and 1702.

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