Antonino Guzzeta, linguist and albanologist, professor, was born in Hora of Arb\u00ebresh\u00eb ( it. Piana degli Albanesi) <\/i>in Sicily. <\/i>He attended higher studies and graduated from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Palermo, where he began his academic career, first as an assistant and then as a professor of phonetics and general linguistics. From 1974, professor of Albanian language and literature at the Oriental Institute of Naples; during the years 1975-1997 he directed the Institute of Albanian Language and Literature at the University of Palermo. He also taught at the University of Calabria (1987-1990). From 1968 he directed the “Rosolino Petrotta” International Center of Albanian Studies. Among the numerous contributions to the field of Albanianology (literature, dialectology, historical and synchronic linguistics, folklore, etc.) are mentioned: “Tracce della lingua albanese nel secolo XV nella documentaci\u00f3n veneta dell’epoca” <\/i>, I, 1968; II, 1973, Palermo (“Traces of Albanian of the XV century in the Venetian documents of the time”); ” Ernest Koliqi, a social poet”, <\/i>1968; ” L’incanto del vero: i racconti di Ernest Koliqi fra tradizione e rinnovamento”, <\/i>1974 (“The magic of truth: the stories of Ernest Koliqi between tradition and renewal”); ” L’etnia albanese in Italia”, <\/i>1988 (“Albanian ethnicity in Italy”); ” I rapporti Arb\u00ebresh-Albanian through the centuries” <\/i>, 1989 (“Arb\u00ebresh-Albanian relations through the centuries”). Antonino Guzzeta has regularly organized international albanological congresses in Palermo, as well as prepared the publication of volumes with their acts (Congress XXVIII, 2002). His activity has given impetus to the development of Albanian studies in Italian universities during a difficult period, guaranteeing the formation of a new generation of Albanian researchers. He was decorated with the “Naim Frash\u00ebri” order of Class I. He passed away in 2016. (In the photo: Hora e Arb\u00ebresh\u00ebvi village near Palermo, Sicily.)<\/i> <\/p>\n
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