Naim Frashëri

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Naim Frashëri

Albanian poet and nationalist

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Albanian literature
…the work of the poet Naim Frashëri. His moving tribute to pastoral life in Bagëti e bujqësia (1886; “Cattle and Crops”; Eng. trans. Frashëri’s Song of Albania) and his epic poem Istori e Skënderbeut (1898; “The History of Skanderbeg”)—eulogizing Skanderbeg, Albania’s medieval national hero—stirred the Albanian nation. Today many regard…
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…the work of the poet Naim Frashëri. His moving tribute to pastoral life in Bagëti e bujqësia (1886; “Cattle and Crops”; Eng. trans. Frashëri’s Song of Albania) and his epic poem Istori e Skënderbeut (1898; “The History of Skanderbeg”)—eulogizing Skanderbeg, Albania’s medieval national hero—stirred the Albanian nation. Today many regard…
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