Vincenzo Stratigò, an Arbëresh poet, was born in Lungro in the region of Cosenza. He studied at the College of St. Adrian in San Demetrio (Calabria), where he was a student of Jeronim de Rada. As a Garibaldian, he actively participated in the Italian liberation movement. His poems in Albanian “Merori” (Bersalieri) and “Proletari” (Lament for the Death of One Who Has None), although not published during the poet’s lifetime, indicated that Arbëresh poetry was becoming sensitive to notes of open protest against social inequality. Some of Vincenzo Stratigò’s other poems dealt with the theme of love. Several of them became popular and are still sung today. In his Italian poem “L’Albanese” (“The Albanian”), Vincenzo Stratigò evokes the history of Albania and the virtues of Albanians. He passed away in 1886. (In the photo: Vinçenc Stratigo)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2402.
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