{"id":6771,"date":"2026-04-18T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/11\/nikolle-brankati\/---81add7d3-1db2-48e3-80ba-8ac0bbc04a51"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:15:53","slug":"nikolle-brankati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/04\/18\/nikolle-brankati\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikoll\u00eb Brankati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 18, 1675<\/strong>, in the village of Hora e Arb\u00ebresh\u00ebve near Palermo (Sicily), Nikoll\u00eb Brankati (1675-1741), poet, was born. He completed his higher religious studies and served as a priest firstly in his hometown and then in the Arb\u00ebresh church in Palermo. He adapted and paraphrased religious songs, he also wrote some original poems, among them some with secular motifs. Nikoll\u00eb Brankati&#8217;s poems, remaining in manuscript, were published by Arb\u00ebresh researchers during the 19th and 20th centuries. A good part of them stand out for the lyricism, fluency and beauty of the verse, for the clean and refined language. <i>(In the photo: Hora e Arb\u00ebresh\u00ebve village near Palermo, Sicily,)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 1 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 288.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piana_degli_Albanesi&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 18, 1675, in the village of Hora e Arb\u00ebresh\u00ebve near Palermo (Sicily), Nikoll\u00eb Brankati (1675-1741), poet, was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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