{"id":156,"date":"2025-09-15T16:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:48:06","slug":"a-vernacular-voice-in-exile-jul-variboba-and-the-arberesh-print-culture-of-the-18th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/abstracts\/a-vernacular-voice-in-exile-jul-variboba-and-the-arberesh-print-culture-of-the-18th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vernacular Voice in Exile: Jul Variboba and the Arb\u00ebresh Print Culture of the 18th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jolanda Lila (Albanian University, Albania)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This paper explores Ghiella e Sh\u00ebn M\u00ebriis Virghi\u00ebr (Rome, 1762), a long devotional poem by Jul Variboba, one of the most original early contributors to Albanian-language literature in the 18th century. Written in the Arb\u00ebresh dialect of San Giorgio Albanese and printed in Rome, the 4717-line poem recounts the life of the Virgin Mary, reflecting both personal piety and broader ecclesiastical influences. This rare printed work, shaped within the Catholic print networks of the time, illustrates how the Arb\u00ebresh diaspora used the printed word to preserve linguistic and cultural identity amid shifting religious and political contexts.<\/p>\n<p>The paper analyzes the poem\u2019s structure, stylistic devices, and the interplay between oral tradition and printed form. Particular attention is given to its intended readership\u2014members of Arb\u00ebresh communities in Southern Italy who adhered to the Byzantine rite. This liturgical tradition played a key role in maintaining a distinct cultural and national identity, and Variboba\u2019s work speaks directly to that context by blending religious instruction with vernacular expression and poetic innovation.<\/p>\n<p>By situating Variboba\u2019s work within early modern print culture, this study offers insight into the transregional movement of religious texts, the role of minority languages in print, and the contribution of peripheral voices to early modern European literary history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jolanda Lila (Albanian University, Albania) This paper explores Ghiella e Sh\u00ebn M\u00ebriis Virghi\u00ebr (Rome, 1762), a long devotional poem by Jul Variboba, one of the most original early contributors to Albanian-language literature in the 18th century. Written in the Arb\u00ebresh dialect of San Giorgio Albanese and printed in Rome, the 4717-line poem recounts the life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/acutus-et-argutus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}