Pjetër Zarishi

Pjetër Zarishi or Dom Pjeter Xarishi[1] (1806 in Blinisht, Zadrima – 1866 in Kallmet, Lezhë) was an Albanian Mirditë[2] Catholic priest and poet who established a tradition of the 19th century Catholic literature in northern Albania.[3] He is also noted for his literary contribution to the Albanian National Awakening.[4] His poems were primarily religious and in less extent secular.

Dom

Pjetër Zarishi
Born(1806-02-16)16 February 1806
Blinisht, Zadrima, Ottoman Empire
Died1866 (1867)
Kallmet, Lezhë, Ottoman Empire
Other namesDom Pjeter Xarishi
OccupationCatholic priest and poet
Known forestablishing a tradition of the 19th century Catholic literature in northern Albania

Life

Zarishi was born on February 16, 1806 in Blinisht, a village in Zadrima, back then part of Ottoman Empire.[5] He was educated at the training college of the Propaganda Fide.[6] He was first appointed as a secretary of the Italian bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë in Nënshat,[1] in the Shkoder Archdiocese who was transferred to Orosh and appointed as abbot[7] of the remote Abbey of Orosh after one disagreement with bishop of Sapa.[8] Zarishi and Dotmaze from Shkoder were assistants of Karlo Krasnik, a Catholic priest.[9] In Orosh Zarishi initially maintained a close cooperation with local Mirdite leaders and particularly with Dod Bib Pasha.[10]

When Ilija Garašanin, through Krasnik, approached to Dod Bib Pasha to propose to Mirdita to join anti-Ottoman revolt, the Pasha accepted to ally with Serbia in exchange for the autonomy of his tribe and freedom to keep their Catholic faith within Serbian state.[11][12] On the other hand, Zarishi and Dotmaze were opposed to participation of Mirdite tribe in the uprising against Ottomans because they believed it would not be effective.[13]

Because of the conflict with some Mirdita chieftains, he was forced to leave Orosh and to settle in Kallmet where he died in 1866.[1][14] His pupil Petar Draguša later wrote that Zarishi was so an good orator that more than once listeners of his speeches broke down crying.[14]

References
  1. Stuart Edward Mann (1955). Albanian literature: an outline of prose, poetry, and drama. B. Quaritch. p. 64. Retrieved 26 September 2013. poet Dom Pjeter Xarishi (or Zarishi)
    For a time Xarishi was secretary to the Bishop of Nenshati, but later became Abbot of Mirdita, and died at Kallmeti at an unknown date.
  2. Г. Г Литаврин; Р. П Гришина; Институт славяноведения; Институт всеобщей истории (2006). Человек на Балканах: государство и его институты : гримасы политической модернизации : последняя четверть ХИХ - начала ХХ в. : [сборник статей]. Алетейя. p. 110. ISBN 978-5-89329-875-8. Retrieved 26 September 2013. ...католический священник Петер Зариши из Мирдиты...
  3. Elsie, Robert (2010). Historical dictionary of Albania. UK: The Scarecrow Press Inc. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6. Retrieved 25 August 2011. tradition of 19th-century Catholic literature in Albania established by Zadrima abbot Pjetër Zarishi(1806–1866),
  4. Lange, Klaus (1973). Grundzüge der albanischen Politik. R. Trofenik. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-87828-067-5. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  5. "Dom Pjetër Zarishi, meshtar e poet në 205 vjetorin e lindjes". www.archivioradiovaticana.va. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  6. Giuseppe Schirò (1959). Storia della letteratura albanese (in Italian). Nuova accademia. p. 114. Retrieved 26 September 2013. Pieter Zarishi nacque a Blinishti nella Zadrima fra il 1810 e il 1815; lo troviamo nel 1837 seminarista nel collegio di Propaganda Fide.
  7. Robert Elsie (24 December 2012). A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. I.B.Tauris. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-78076-431-3. Retrieved 26 September 2013. ...Zadrima abbot Pjetër Zarishi...
  8. Peter R. Prifti (2002). Land of Albanians: a crossroad of pain and pride. Horizont. p. 96. ISBN 978-99927-743-6-6. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
  9. Sbornik za narodni umotvorenii︠a︡ i narodopis. Izdatelstvo na Bŭlgarskata akademii︠a︡ na naukite. 1968. p. 430. Retrieved 4 December 2013. За помощници Красник имал Дон Зариши и скадарчанина Дотмазе, син на богат търговец и епископ в Мале- сия
  10. Misao. 1931. p. 361. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  11. David MacKenzie (1985). Ilija Garašanin: Balkan Bismarck. East European Monographs. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-88033-073-2. Through him Garasanin contacted chieftain, Bib Doda, who pledged that his Mirdites would revolt in return for autonomy and religious freedom
  12. Vladimir Dedijer (1974). History of Yugoslavia. McGraw-Hill Book Co. p. 324.
  13. Stefan I. Verković; Kiril Penušliski (1985). Makedonski narodni umotvorbi: Folklorni i etnografski materijali. Makedonska kniga. p. 343.
  14. Misao. 1931. p. 361.
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