Napoli tra Sette e Ottocento: polo storico di riferimento culturale per il mondo albanese e l’Arbëria. Nel Bicentenario della morte di Angelo Masci (1822-2022)

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Romance section annals - Texts

Pages: 312

Language: Italian

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Abstract: The given contributions illustrate in depth the central role of Naples for a double awareness: on the one hand the need of the Albanians of Italy to emancipate themselves from the state of social and civil marginalization in which they lived, and on the other the need of a cultural rebirth (Rilindja) of the Albanians on the other side of the Adriatic to the detriment of the Ottoman yoke. Between the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, Naples offered itself to the arbëreshë intellectuals as a workshop in turmoil in which to elaborate the constitutive characteristics of the Albanian cultural identity on which the future country will put down roots.

The researches here gathered confirm the arbëresh roots of the Albanian movement of Rilindja, thanks to the network of relationships and exchange that the intellectuals of the Italo-Albanian  diaspora, trained in Naples and operating in the south of Italy have established with the intellectuals of other diasporas in Istanbul, Bucharest, Cairo and Sofia, making the ideal homeland, the Arbëria, become the paradigm on which to elaborate, in the second half of the nineteenth century, ideas on the Albanian cultural and linguistic identity and the very concept of the Albanian nation.

It is offered as a rediscovery and ideas of renewed study of the Albanian traces in Naples, which, inserting themselves into the Neapolitan genius loci, accentuate their multiple, fluid, stratified dimension at the expense of national-centric visions, whose one-dimensional character pairs with the homologation tendency, so widespread nowadays.