Nicola CHETTA
BIOGRAPHY
Italo-Albanian writer and poet Nicola Chetta (1740?-1803),
Alb. Nikollë Keta, was born in Contessa Entellina
(Alb. Kundisa), the oldest Albanian settlement in Sicily,
founded between 1450 and 1467. He was educated at the Greek seminary
in Palermo. In 1777, Chetta himself became rector of the seminary
himself. As a poet, he wrote both religious and secular verse
in Albanian and Greek, and has the honour of having composed
the first Albanian sonnet (1777). |
Albanian Literature in Translation
Early
Authors (16th - 18th centuries)
