Maria Antonia Braile
Maria Antonia Braile (born San Demetrio Corone, Calabria) was an Italian-arbëreshë writer and the first Albanian woman writer to ever publish literature in Albanian. She is the sister of Salvatore Braile, another Italian-Albanian poet and writer, and sister-in-law of Maria Sofia Baffa Trasci.
She was born in San Demetrio Corone in Calabria July the 13 1894 and she married in 1913 Rocco De Benedetto.[1] Braile published in 1917 in Calabria, Italy, a collection of poems in Arbëresh language, entitled Canti.[2]
Braile is part of the Albanian world of poetry. Her poetry is simple and melancholic.[3] She will be remembered as the first Albanian woman poet.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Maximilian Lambertz (1959), Lehrgang des Albanischen: Grammatik der albanischen Sprache, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, p. 17, OCLC 310695315,
Maria Antonia Braile aus S. Demetrio Corone (Cosenza)
- ↑ Jorgaqi, Nasho (8 March 2015). "Nasho Jorgaqi: Zërat e parë femërorë të letërsisë shqipe". Shqiptarja. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
- ↑ Giuseppe Gradilone (1983). La letteratura albanese e il mondo classico: 4 studi. Bulzoni. p. 215.
- ↑ Kodra, Klara (March 2003). "Poetesha e parë arbëreshe dhe shqiptare : Maria Antonia Braile". Diana. p. 4. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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