“Particularly noteworthy is how [Girolamo/Jeronim] De Rada linked his dual #identity as an #Albanian and #Italian patriot into a coherent intellectual programme. For him, #Italy ap-pears as a living environment and political homeland, while #Albania is a cultural land of origin and emotional sphere of reference. He justified both #loyalties through recurring narrative and metaphorical elements: references to ancient ancestors, opposition to #tyranny and foreign rule, […]
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and the metaphysically charged vision of a divinely ordered national cosmos. In De Rada’s work, it is precisely this transcultural mediation that ideologically connects the #Rilindja with the #Risorgimento. The journal L’Albanese d’Italia thus marks not only an early journalistic testimony to the Albanian #national movement but also an #intellectual bridge between two national #emancipation movements of the nineteenth century.
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De Rada understood his #patriotic task as a moral & cultural #renewal of both peoples. With his dual identity, he embodied the hope that national #self-determination & #European #solidarity need not be opposites but can complement each other.[…] With this call for intellectual #independence, De Rada linked a vision of political #maturity that found resonance in both Albanian and Italian contexts. His voice thus remains one of the clearest from the border area of two emerging #nations.
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