FRANG BARDHI, VAZHDUES I TRADITËS HUMANISTE TË MARIN BARLETIT
FRANG BARDHI, A FOLLOWER OF HUMANISTIC TRADITION OF MARIN BARLETI

Summary/Abstract: Frang Bardhi (1606 – 1643) is one the most significant figures of Albanian culture. His scientific and publicist’s activity is of a special importance. He is the first Albanian lexicographer and the first collec-tor of Albanian folklore. He is an ethnographer and geographer, and he is also a chronicler, historian and polemist in a literary sense. The importance of his practical activity in protection of his enslaved people’s interests and his written work becomes even greater if we have in mind political, social and economical circumstances in which he acted and the age when he died. As a historiographer, but also as a polemist, Frang Bardhi is a follower of tradition of Albanian historiography in Latin language, begun one century earlier by Marin Biçikemi from Tivar, Marin Barleti and Dhimitër Frëngu, who dedicated their historiography works to immortalization of events from the most dramatic and most glorious period of history of Albanian people, to the fighting of Albanian people led by George Castrioti Scanderbeg against Ottoman invaders and those dedicated to the Defence of Shkodra. Their creative works are distinguished not only for the evidence of interest for science of history, but also for numerous humanistic ideas which pervade them with their literary-artistic style. Without argumentation of his thesis and for opposition of Tomko Margnaviq’s viewpoints (a historian of Slavonic origin) that Scanderbeg came from a family of Slavonic origin, Bardhi found his support on many historiography works of distinguished authors, among whom, as far as description of events related to activities of George Castrioti Scanderbeg and of his people is concerned, it is distinguished the work of the great Albanian priest from Shkodra, the great Albanian humanist, Marin Barleti, entitled “History of the life and works of Scanderbeg, the Prince of Epirots”.

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