Marin Barleti

Marin Barleti

Marin Barleti (Latin: Marinus Barletius, Italian: Marino Barlezio; c. 1450–1454 – c. 1512) was a historian, humanist and Roman Catholic priest from Shkodër. He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra. Barleti is better known for his second work, a biography on Skanderbeg, translated into many languages in the 16th to the 20th centuries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in undefined different languages on Wikipedia. Marin Barleti is the NaNth most popular historian, the NaNth most popular biography from Albania.