"La più gran gioia è sempre all’altra riva"

On the Albanian migration in Italy (XIV-XVIII centuries)

Abstract

 In the seventies of the past century, Pier Paolo Pasolini considered the Albanian phenomenon “an anthropologic miracle”, as he openly confessed the surprise he was caught by while listening to his interlocutor, the priest, and the Albanian Albanologist Zef (Giuseppe) Faraco. For the great Italian writer the reasons of the centennial survival of an aloglot ethnic-linguistic community that has preserved the language, traditions, historic remembrance, are scientifically unexplainable. However, but the great number of reasons and complexity requires definitions and concepts borrowed from the dogmatic theology.