Original scientific paper
ALBANIAN EMIGRANT AND CONFIDENT OF ZMAJEVIĆ – MARCO DELVESI, CLERIC FROM ZADAR (THE 18TH CENTURY)
Lovorka ČORALIĆ
Abstract
Nationally and religiously diverse immigrant communities were an important component of social and daily life within Dalmatian cities during the Venetian government over the Eastern Adriatic coast. Good example is city of Zadar, the centre of economy, cultural life
and administration of Venetian Dalmatia, were lived many different immigrant communities from the entire Venetian dominion (from Furlania to Crete) during the early modern period. Topic of this article is Marco Delvesi, a cleric, who was born in the bishopric of Sappa in Albania but who immigrated to Zadar probably during the 30s of the eighteenth century, i.e. during the Venetian authorities planned settlement of Albanians in the surroundings of Zadar. Author analyses Delvesi’s connections with Vicko Zmajević bishop of Zadar and clergyman Ivan Campsi. Moreover, author investigates Delvesi’s testament, which was written in 1775 in Zadar. At the end of this article author delivers transcription of this testament that is presently kept in State Archives in Zadar.
Keywords
Zadar; Dalmatia; Albania; Albanians; Sappa; ecclesiastical history; early modern age
Hrčak ID:
34595
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Publication date:
18.12.2008.
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