Essay: The Foundation of Albanian Literature – Gjon Buzuku’s Meshari The publication of Gjon Buzuku’s
Gjon Buzuku was a Catholic clergyman living in the Venetian-influenced village of Livari (near modern-day Bar, Montenegro). During the mid-16th century, the Ottoman Empire controlled much of the Balkans, and Catholic printing presses were rare. Buzuku took it upon himself to translate the Catholic missal (a book containing the texts for Mass) into the dialect of Albanian spoken by the common people. meshari gjon buzuku pdf
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