Rapsodi të pabotuara të F. A. Santorit: cikli “Kënka jushtërore” (Këngët e luftës)
Unpublished rhapsody by F. A. Santori: cycle “Kënka jushtërore” (War songs)

Summary/Abstract: This study will focus on the less known aspect of one of the leading representatives of the glorious pleiades of 19th century Arbëresh writers, Francesco Antonio Santori (1819-1894). It also aims to reevaluate his literary activity and to affirm the materials which are preserved on the archive of the Institute of Linguistics and Literature of ASA. The study is divided into three topics: a) the interest of Santori for the great Albanian period of Scanderbeg wars against the ottoman invador, b) the manuscript analysis of heroic songs c) the connection with the Albanian heroic epic. Through the three main topics, well known or partly researched aspects of this prominent figure of Arbëresh and Albanian history of literature are illuminated. At the same time, the article shows that Santori was in direct connection with the general Arbëresh, Italian and European political, cultural and literary efforts. Through the analysis of eleven of the brave songs of cycle “Kënka jushtërore”, based on the manuscript which is stored in the archive IGJL (ASA - Tirana), it is shown that the cultural and literary aspects of F. A. Santori’s songs are clearly distinguished from the publications of Jeronim de Rada. They particulary emerge in descriptive breadth (quantitative length and width of the subject), as well as in the scope and depth of raising and building the subject of song motifs, and, last but not least, in the field of the literary genre that he has pursued. At the level of the creative process Santori’s rhapsody has followed a long singed epic technique. This way songs of this manuscript are evidence of a new type of the Albanian epic singing, which has been raised and built on a prosperous several centuries old heritage.

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