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Frang Bardhi (
Bardhi is remembered as the author of the first Albanian dictionary Dictionarium latino-epiroticum (Latin-Albanian dictionary) published in
"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
* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bardhi, Frang Frang 1606 births 1643 deaths Republic of Venice clergy 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
Latin
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: ''Franciscus Blancus'', , 1606–1643) was an Albanian
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Catholic
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bishop and Old Albanian
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author. Bardhi is best known as an author of the early eras of Albanian literature
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. He served as Bishop of Sapë
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(1635–1644). ''(in Latin)''
Life
Bardhi was born inKallmet
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or Nënshat
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in the northern Albanian Zadrima
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region near Lezhë
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. He came from a family consisting of many figures high in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church
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and state officials or military commanders of the Republic of Venice
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. His uncle was Bishop of Sapa and Sarda. He studied theology
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in Italy
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. On 17 December 1635, Francesco Bianchi was appointed during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII
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as Bishop of Sapë
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. On 30 March 1636, he was consecrated
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bishop by Ciriaco Rocci
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Life
Rocci was born on 8 August 1582 in Rome and studied law before entering the service of ...
, Cardinal-Priest
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of San Salvatore in Lauro
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, with Giovanni Battista Altieri
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, Bishop Emeritus of Camerino, and Ottavio Broglia
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, Bishop of Asti
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Bardhi is remembered as the author of the first Albanian dictionary Dictionarium latino-epiroticum (Latin-Albanian dictionary) published in Rome
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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 Albanian folklore is the folk tradition of the Albanian people. Albanian traditions have been orally transmitted – through memory systems that have survived intact into modern times – down the generations and are still very much alive in the mo ...
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Bardhi also wrote a biography of George Kastrioti Skanderbeg
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, called '' The Apology of Scanderbeg'' published in Venice
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in 1636. The Apology of Scanderbeg was a polemic against Slavic Catholic priest Ivan Tomko Mrnavić, who claimed that Kastrioti was of Slav origin. Bardhi also complained that the Albanian language
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"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 rising the national pride between Albanians.
From 1637 on, Bardhi submitted reports in Italian and Latin to the Congregation of the Propaganda Fide
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in Rome
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which contain a mine of information about his diocese
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History
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, about political developments, about Albanian customs and about the structure and position of the Catholic Church in Ottoman-occupied Albania
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See also
* Bardhi family name *Pjetër Budi
Pjetër Budi (1566 – December 1622), was an Albanian Catholic bishop and a prominent Old Albanian author. He is known for his first work ''"Doktrina e Kërshtenë"'' (The Christian Doctrine), an Albanian translation of the catechism of Rober ...
*Pjetër Bogdani
Pjetër Bogdani (; 1627 – 6 December 1689) was the most original writer of Old Albanian literature. He was author of the Cuneus Prophetarum (''The Band of the Prophets''), 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in (Gheg) A ...
*Gjon Buzuku
Gjon Buzuku ( – ) was an Albanian Catholic priest and a prominent Old Albanian author, who wrote the first known printed book in Albanian. Commonly referred to as the ''Missal'', this book is considered an important monument of Albanian stud ...
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"Description and information on the state of the bishopric and parish churches of the Diocese of Sapa, subjected to the tyranny of the Turks"
* (for Chronology of Bishops) * (for Chronology of Bishops) {{DEFAULTSORT:Bardhi, Frang Frang 1606 births 1643 deaths Republic of Venice clergy 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