Frang Bardhi
Most Reverend Frang Bardhi | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Sapë | |
| File:Frang Bardhi 1993 Albania stamp.jpg Frang Bardhi on a 1993 Albanian stamp | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| In office | 1635–1644 |
| Predecessor | Gjergj Bardhi |
| Successor | Gjergj Bardhi |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 30 Mar 1636 by Ciriaco Rocci |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1606 |
| Died | 1643 (aged 36–37) |
Frang Bardhi (Latin: Franciscus Blancus, Italian: Francesco Bianchi, 1606–1643) was an Albanian Catholic bishop and Old Albanian author from the Renaissance.[1][2] Bardhi is best known as an author of the early eras of Albanian literature. He served as Bishop of Sapë (1635–1644).[3]
Life
[edit | edit source]Bardhi was born in Kallmet or Nënshat in the northern Albanian Zadrima region near Lezhë. He came from a family consisting of many figures high in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and state officials or military commanders of the Republic of Venice. His uncle was the Bishop of Sapa and Sarda. He studied theology in Italy. On 17 December 1635, during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII, Bardhi was appointed Bishop of Sapë.[3][4] On 30 March 1636, he was consecrated bishop by Ciriaco Rocci, Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro, with Giovanni Battista Altieri, Bishop Emeritus of Camerino, and Ottavio Broglia, Bishop of Asti, serving as co-consecrators.[4]
Bardhi is remembered as the author of the first Albanian dictionary, Dictionarium latino-epiroticum (Latin-Albanian dictionary), published in Rome in 1635, comprising 5,640 entries. Its appendix contains a list of 113 proverbs, phrases and idioms, some of which are translations from other languages into Albanian, with the vast majority being collected from the Albanian folklore.[5]
Bardhi also wrote a biography of Skanderbeg, called The Apology of Scanderbeg, published in Venice in 1636.[6] The Apology of Scanderbeg was a polemic against the Slavic Catholic priest Ivan Tomko Mrnavić, who claimed that Kastrioti was of Slav origin.[7][8] Bardhi also complained that the Albanian language "was being lost and degenerating" under the blows of foreign occupiers, and in order to preserve it, he saw himself contributing to the missing of national pride among Albanians.[5]
From 1637 on, Bardhi submitted reports in Italian and Latin to the Congregation of the Propaganda Fide in Rome, which contain a mine of information about his diocese, political developments, Albanian customs and the structure and position of the Catholic Church in Ottoman Albania.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Bardhi family name
- Pjetër Budi
- Pjetër Bogdani
- Gjon Buzuku
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- "Description and information on the state of the bishopric and parish churches of the Diocese of Sapa, subjected to the tyranny of the Turks"
- Albanian Literature, Section 1.6, by Robert Elsie, pages 24–27
- Dictionarivm Latino Epiroticvm per R. D. Franciscvm Blanchvm
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- Bardhi family
- 1606 births
- 1643 deaths
- Clergy from the Republic of Venice
- People from Lezhë
- 17th-century Albanian Roman Catholic bishops
- 17th-century writers in Latin
- Venetian period in the history of Albania
- Albanian lexicographers
- Albanian historians
- 17th-century Albanian writers
- 17th-century historians
- Sanjak of Scutari
- Members of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
- 17th-century male writers
- 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Ottoman Empire
- Roman Catholic bishops of Sapë