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Pjetër Zarishi

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Pjetër Zarishi
Born 16 February 1806
Blinisht, Zadrima, Ottoman Empire
Died 1866
Kallmet, Lezhë, Ottoman Empire
Other name Dom Pjeter Xarishi
Occupations Catholic priest and poet
Known for establishing a tradition of the 19th century Catholic literature in northern Albania

Pjetër Zarishi or Dom Pjeter Xarishi[1] (1806 in Blinisht, Zadrima – 1866 in Kallmet, Lezhë) was an Albanian Mirditë[2] Catholic priest and poet who established a tradition of the 19th century Catholic literature in northern Albania.[3] He is also noted for his literary contribution to the Albanian National Awakening.[4] His poems were primarily religious and in less extent secular.

Life

Zarishi was born on February 16, 1806, in Blinisht, a village in Zadrima, back then part of Ottoman Empire.[5] He was educated at the training college of the Propaganda Fide.[6] He was first appointed as a secretary of the Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë in Nënshat,[1] in the Shkoder Archdiocese who was transferred to Orosh and appointed as abbot[7] of the remote Abbey of Orosh after one disagreement with bishop of Sapa.[8] Zarishi and Dotmaze from Shkoder were assistants of Karlo Krasnik, a Catholic priest.[9] In Orosh Zarishi initially maintained a close cooperation with local Mirdite leaders and particularly with Dod Bib Pasha.[10]

When Ilija Garašanin, through Krasnik, approached to Dod Bib Pasha to propose to Mirdita to join anti-Ottoman revolt, the Pasha accepted to ally with Serbia in exchange for the autonomy of his tribe and freedom to keep their Catholic faith within Serbian state.[11][12] On the other hand, Zarishi and Dotmaze were opposed to participation of Mirdite tribe in the uprising against Ottomans because they believed it would not be effective.[13]

Because of the conflict with some Mirdita chieftains, he was forced to leave Orosh and to settle in Kallmet where he died in 1866.[1][14] His pupil Petar Draguša later wrote that Zarishi was so good an orator that more than once listeners of his speeches broke down crying.[14]

References

  1. Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Back to citation occurrence 1.2 Stuart Edward Mann (1955). Albanian literature: an outline of prose, poetry, and drama. B. Quaritch. p. 64. Retrieved 26 September 2013. “poet Dom Pjeter Xarishi (or Zarishi)
    For a time Xarishi was secretary to the Bishop of Nenshati, but later became Abbot of Mirdita, and died at Kallmeti at an unknown date.”
  2. Back to citation Г. Г Литаврин; Р. П Гришина; Институт славяноведения; Институт всеобщей истории (2006). Человек на Балканах: государство и его институты: гримасы политической модернизации: последняя четверть ХИХ - начала ХХ в.: [сборник статей]. Алетейя. p. 110. ISBN 978-5-89329-875-8. Retrieved 26 September 2013. “...католический священник Петер Зариши из Мирдиты...”
  3. Back to citation Elsie, Robert (2010). Historical dictionary of Albania. UK: The Scarecrow Press Inc. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6. Retrieved 25 August 2011. “tradition of 19th-century Catholic literature in Albania established by Zadrima abbot Pjetër Zarishi(1806–1866),”
  4. Back to citation Lange, Klaus (1973). Grundzüge der albanischen Politik. R. Trofenik. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-87828-067-5. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  5. Back to citation "Dom Pjetër Zarishi, meshtar e poet në 205 vjetorin e lindjes". www.archivioradiovaticana.va. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  6. Back to citation Giuseppe Schirò (1959). Storia della letteratura albanese (in Italian). Nuova accademia. p. 114. Retrieved 26 September 2013. “Pieter Zarishi nacque a Blinishti nella Zadrima fra il 1810 e il 1815; lo troviamo nel 1837 seminarista nel collegio di Propaganda Fide.”
  7. Back to citation Robert Elsie (24 December 2012). A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. I.B.Tauris. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-78076-431-3. Retrieved 26 September 2013. “...Zadrima abbot Pjetër Zarishi...”
  8. Back to citation Peter R. Prifti (2002). Land of Albanians: a crossroad of pain and pride. Horizont. p. 96. ISBN 978-99927-743-6-6. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  9. Back to citation Sbornik za narodni umotvorenii︠a︡ i narodopis. Izdatelstvo na Bŭlgarskata akademii︠a︡ na naukite. 1968. p. 430. Retrieved 4 December 2013. “За помощници Красник имал Дон Зариши и скадарчанина Дотмазе, син на богат търговец и епископ в Мале- сия”
  10. Back to citation Misao. 1931. p. 361. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  11. Back to citation David MacKenzie (1985). Ilija Garašanin: Balkan Bismarck. East European Monographs. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-88033-073-2. “Through him Garasanin contacted chieftain, Bib Doda, who pledged that his Mirdites would revolt in return for autonomy and religious freedom”
  12. Back to citation Vladimir Dedijer (1974). History of Yugoslavia. McGraw-Hill Book Co. p. 324. ISBN 9780070162358.
  13. Back to citation Stefan I. Verković; Kiril Penušliski (1985). Makedonski narodni umotvorbi: Folklorni i etnografski materijali. Makedonska kniga. p. 343.
  14. Back to citation occurrence 14.0 Back to citation occurrence 14.1 Misao. 1931. p. 361.
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