{"id":6646,"date":"2026-03-20T00:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/11\/francesco-solano\/---aad712e3-0a5a-4a1c-a981-ea88066c07de"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:18:28","slug":"francesco-solano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2023\/10\/11\/francesco-solano\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Solano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Solano (Francesco) (1914\u20131999), Arb\u00ebresh linguist and writer, also known by the pseudonym Dushko Vetmo, <strong>passed away. <\/strong>He was born in Frasnit\u00eb (Frascineto) in Calabria. He studied theology in Italy and in Argentina. He served as a parish priest for many years in Frasnit\u00eb and devoted himself to the knowledge and study of Arb\u00ebresh language, culture and literature. In 1975, he founded the chair of the Albanian language and then that of Arb\u00ebresh dialects at the University of Calabria, and headed there, for several years, the Department of Linguistics. He established close scientific and educational relations with the universities and scientific institutions of Albania and Kosova and with Albanologists from other countries. Francesco Solano published a series of studies about the dialects and works of Arb\u00ebresh literary tradition. Supported the learning of literary Albanian in the Arb\u00ebresh environment and cultural ties with the homeland, as the only means for the survival and development of Arb\u00ebresh cultural traditions. For this purpose, he published <i>&#8220;Manuale di lingua albanese&#8221; (\u201cAlbanian language manual\u201d) <\/i>(1972, reprinted 1988) and <i>&#8220;Guida alla conversazione albanese&#8221; (\u201cAlbanian Conversation Guide&#8221;) <\/i>(1975). As a poet, prose writer and dramatist, known under the pseudonyms Paullo Illyrico and Dushko Vetmo, he has published a number of literary works, collections of poems and prose writings. He was decorated with the Order &#8220;Naim Frash\u00ebri&#8221; of the first class. <i>(In the photo: Fran\u00e7esko Solano)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2370.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/gazetavatra.com\/tags\/francesco-solano\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Solano (Francesco) (1914\u20131999), Arb\u00ebresh linguist and writer, also known by the pseudonym Dushko Vetmo, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}