List of Italians of Albanian descent
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These are lists of prominent Italo-Albanians, arranged by field of activity.[1][2]
History and politics[edit]
- Francesco Crispi – Italy's Prime Minister from 1887 until 1891, among the main protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento.[3][4][5]
- Giorgio Basta – General of Holy Roman Empire[6][7][8][9][10][11]
- Antonio Gramsci – Philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist – founding member and leader of the Communist Party of Italy[12][13]
- Juan Pedro Aladro Kastriota – Spanish-Arbereshe nobleman, diplomat, and pretender of the throne of Albania
- Giuseppe Salvatore Bellusci – politician.
- Nicola Barbato – Doctor and politician, among the founders of the movement of the Fasci Siciliani Workers.
- Giacomo Vuxani – Italian politician
- Joseph J. DioGuardi – Former US Congressman.
- Stefano Rodotà – Italian Politician.
- Antonio Rodotà – Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), serving from 1997 until 2003
- Victor Hugo Schiro – Two-term mayor (17 July 1961 – 2 May 1970) of New Orleans, Louisiana
- Terenzio Tocci – Politician
- Sal Albanese – Politician
- Richard Caliguiri – politician
Business[edit]
- Enrico Cuccia – Banker, founder of Mediobanca and important figure in Italian post-war industrial reconstruction [14]
- Nicolas Berggruen – Philanthropist and investor
- Anselmo Lorecchio – Italian lawyer, journalist, politician, poet and writer
- Ercole Lupinacci – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Lungro.
- Ofelia Giudicissi Curci – Italian poet and archeologist
- Bernardino Vitali - printer
Academics[edit]
- Girolamo de Rada – Author and important figure of the Albanian National Awakening[15]
- Giulio Variboba – Poet
- Giuseppe Serembe – Lyric poet.
- Carmine Abate – Novelist and short story writer.
- Domenico Bellizzi a.k.a. Vorea Ujko – Priest and poet
- Mario Bellizzi – Poet
- Bernardo Bilotta – Priest, poet and folklorist[16]
- Demetrio Camarda – Byzantine rite priest, Albanian language scholar, historian and philologist
- Nicola Chetta – Byzantine rite priest, ethnographic, writer and poet
- Giuseppe Crispi – Priest and philologist, one of the major figures of the Arbëresh community of Sicily of his time.
- Giuseppe Schirò – Poet, linguist, publicist, folklorist and Albanian patriot, among the most representative figures of the Arbëreshë literature of the 19th century[17]
- Ernest Koliqi – Writer, poet, playwright and university teacher in Rome.
- Gabriele Dara – Politician and poet, regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening.
- Ernesto Sabato – Argentine painter, physicist, and influential writer of Arbëreshë and Italian ethnicity[18]
- Giuseppe Schirò Di Maggio – Poet, journalist, essayist, playwright and writer, among the most influential and prolific exponents of contemporary Arbëreshë literature
- Eleuterio Francesco Fortino – Priest of the Italo-Albanian Church in Calabria and writer of the Bizantine and Albanian culture
- Angelo Masci – Writer
- Luca Matranga – Byzantine rite priest, one of the first writers in Albanian
- Francesco Antonio Santori – Writer, playwright and poet of the Albanian National Awakening
- Laura Mersini-Houghton – American cosmologist
- Ferruccio Baffa Trasci – Bishop, theologian and philosopher
- Tom Perrotta – American novelist and screenwriter[19][20]
- Marco La Piana – Italian scholar of Arbëresh origin
- Maria Antonia Braile – Italian-arbëreshë writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albanian
- Francesco Altimari – Italian scholar in the field of Albanology
- Pasquale Scutari – Italian linguist and Albanologist
- Giuseppe Schirò (junior) – Italian scholar and literary historian
Military[edit]
- Mercurio Bua – Famed condottiero (stratioti captain) and commander of the Venetian army
- Hadji Alia – Albanian pirate lord[21][22]
- Theodore Bua – Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice
- Demetrio Reres – Calabrian nobleman[23]
- Graitzas Palaiologos – Commander of the Byzantine garrison
- Gjon Markagjoni – Albanian Catholic clan chieftain
- Khoja Zufar – Captain, governor, merchant and General[24][25]
- Demetrio Capuzzimati – Stradiot captain in Puglia
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Religious[edit]
- Pope Clement XI – Pope from 23 November 1700 to his death in 1721.[26][27] part from the noble Albani family which had established itself in Urbino from northern Albania in the 15th century.[28][29]
- Sotir Ferrara – Bishop of the Italo-Albanian Church of Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi
- Donato Oliverio – Bishop of the Eparchy of Lungro, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Calabria, Italy
- Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro – Bishop of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi, a diocese of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church in Sicily, Italy
- Nikollë Filja – Arbëreshë Byzantine rite priest, and writer of the 18th century
- Antonio Ciliberti – Roman Catholic archbishop
- Alessandro Albani – Prominent jurist and papal administrator
- Annibale Albani – Italian Cardinal
- Ernest Simoni – Cardinal
- Gian Girolamo Albani – Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
- Gian Francesco Albani – Roman Catholic Cardinal
- Giuseppe Albani – Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal
- Ferruccio Baffa Trasci – Italian bishop, theologian and philosopher
- Eleuterio Francesco Fortino – Italian priest of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
- Pietro Parente – Long-serving theologian in the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church
- Raffaele Castielli – Italian bishop
- Arberia Parish – Eastern Orthodox Christian parish
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Artists[edit]
- Marco Basaiti – Renaissance painter[30][31][32][33][34][35]
- Michele Greco da Valona - Albanian painter of the Adriatic Renaissance
- Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
- Ibrahim Kodra – Painter[36]
- Alborosie - Italian Reggae Ambassador
- Xhovalin Delia - Painter, publicist and film director
Arts and entertainment[edit]
- Tito Schipa – Italian tenor[37]
- Nik Spatari – Italian painter, sculptor, architect and art scholar
- Salvatore Frega - Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music[38]
- Anna Oxa – Italian-Albanian singer, actress and television presenter[39]
- Ermal Meta – Italian-Albanian singer
- Elhaida Dani – Italian-Albanian singer
Sportspeople[edit]
- Giovanni Paramithiotti - founder and first Chairman of FC Inter Milan
- Igli Tare – Football player
- Emanuele Ndoj – Albanian professional footballer
- Giacomo Vrioni – Italian-Albanian football player
- Andrea Isufaj – Italian football player
- Marash Kumbulla – Italian-born Albanian professional footballer[40]
- Irlian Ceka – Albanian professional footballer
- Kastriot Dermaku – Albanian professional footballer
- Entonjo Elezaj – Italian-Albanian football player
- Ador Gjuci – Italian-Albanian football player
- Alessio Hyseni – Italian-Albanian football player
- Antonio Candreva – Italian footballer
- Ardit Gashi – Italian-Kosovar footballer
- Giuseppe Bellusci – Italian footballer
- Luca Rizzo – Italian professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Bologna.
- Daniel Caligiuri – German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga.[41]
- Marco Caligiuri – German footballer[41]
- Stefano Fiore – Italian football manager and former player, who played as an attacking midfielder or on the wing
- Federico Zenuni – Albanian professional footballer
- Shaqir Tafa – Albanian professional footballer
- Ismet Sinani – Footballer
- Kleto Gjura – Footballer
- Fabio Sakaj – Footballer
- Alessio Ruçi – Footballer
- Nicola Legrottaglie – Italian retired footballer who played as a central defender, and is the current assistant manager at Cagliari Calcio
- Andrea Tripicchio – Italian professional footballer
- Angelo Ndrecka – Italian-Albanian professional footballer
- Francesco Pianeta – Italian professional boxer
- Antonio Giovinazzi – Italian racing driver
- Luigi Mastrangelo – Italian men's volleyball player
- Andy Parrino – American former professional baseball player[42]
- Noel Borshi – Albanian swimmer[43]
- Ornel Gega – Rugby union player[44]
- Engjel Makelara – Rugby union player[45]
- Luca Shytaj – Albanian-Italian chess grandmaster and virologist[46][47]
- Klodeta Gjini – Albanian track and field athlete[48]
- Abramo Canka – Italian professional basketball player [49][50]
Writers[edit]
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My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from a village near Avellino. I grew up hearing them and my dad talk Italian. My mother's relatives were Albanians, but they, too, lived in Italy before emigrating to the States.
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illyricum sacrum albanian.
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Veneziano di probabile origine albanese
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L'opinione di F. Babinger (*) secondo cui il pittore veneziano Marco Basaiti, il quale operò intorno agli anni 1500–1530, fosse di origine albanese, a mio avviso trova conferma nel fatto che Bazaiti appare ancor oggi come nome di famiglia nella città di Delvina
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Trained in the same school was the Greek Marco Basaiti, from whom we find a smaller replica of the artist's large painting which is now in the Academy at Venice
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[The Albanian exiled community] set up there their own school, which they called "Scuola degli Albanesi" (School of the Albanians). Their textbooks were the works of the Albanian Humanists: Marin Beçikemi (1468-1528) and Marin Barleti (1460–1512). The most renowned painters were Marco Basaiti (1496–1530) and Viktor Karpaçi (1465–1525). Some international academics have referred to them and their Albanian descent.
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