Giuseppe Schirò (junior)

Giuseppe Schirò Junior (1905 – 1984), was an Italian scholar and literary historian.

Giuseppe Schirò Junior
Born
Giuseppe Schirò

1905 (1905)
Contessa Entellina, Palermo, Sicily
Died1984 (aged 7879)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materCorsini College
Occupation(s)Scholar, literary historian

Schirò was of Arbëreshë descent. He was born in Contessa Entellina (Albanian: Kuntisa), Sicily. He was referred as "junior" to distinguish him from the "Senior", the Arberesh poet Giuseppe Schirò (1865 – 1927).

Schirò studied at the Corsini College in San Demetrio Corone in Calabria. He worked as a teacher in Padua and Rome. Schirò's wrote on Albanian culture, the first work appeared in the 1940s. He is remembered in particular for his "Storia della letteratura albanese" ("History of Albanian Literature") published in Firenze in 1959, being one of the most reliable histories of Albanian literature.

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