Marin Barleti

Marin Barleti
Marinus Barletius
Bornc. 1450-1460
Scutari, Albania, Republic of Venice (modern Shkodër, Albania)
Diedc. 1512-1513 (age 51–63)
Padua, Republic of Venice (modern Padua, Italy)
NationalityAlbanian
Known forAuthor of Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarum principis
Scientific career
InstitutionsChurch of St. Stephan

Marin Barleti (Latin: Marinus Barletius, Italian: Marino Barlezio; c. 1450–1460 – c. 1512-1513) was a historian, humanist and Catholic priest from Shkodër.[1] He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra. Barleti is better known for his second work, a biography on Skanderbeg, translated into many languages in the 16th to the 20th centuries.

  1. ^ Setton, Kenneth M. (1978). The papacy and the Levant (1204-1571) (null ed.). Philadelphia: Amer.philos.soc. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-87169-127-9. ...perhaps of Italian origin.