Lluka Perrone, collector and researcher of folklore and Arbëresh cultural traditions and poet, was born in Ejania, Cosenza province. He completed his higher studies in jurisprudence and French literature. Lluka Perrone was one of the most active Arbëresh intellectuals for the protection and development of Arbëresh cultural traditions. In 1960, commissioned by the Institute of Albanian Language and Literature of the University of Rome (directed by Ernest Koliqi), the systematic collection of Arbëresh folklore in Calabria began. A part of the subject was published in the volume “Novellistica italo-albanese” (Florence, 1967), which includes 179 units collected in villages of the province of Cosenza and systematized according to the international catalog of fairy tales; the other volume, “Përralla nga Arbëria e Kutronit” (“Fairytales from the Arbëria of Kutron”) (Cosenza, 2004), contains 46 units collected in the villages of San Nicola Dell’Alto, Carfizzi and Pallagorio. He published research articles and materials in several magazines. Lluka Perrone also published collections of poems, inspired by the love for the moral values of the spiritual world of Arbëresh, such as “Lule shkëmbi” (“Rock flower”) (Cosenza, 1968), “Vjershë lirie” (“Freedom poem”) (Castrovilari, 1971) etc. (In the photo: Lluka Perrone)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 1991.
Photo: © Center of Studies and Publications for Arbëresh
Graphic processing: AHCF
