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Angelo Masci

1758 – 1821

Italian jurist and scholar

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Lived 1758 – 1821 (aged 62–63).

Angelo Masci (Arbërisht: Ëngjëll Mashi; 1758–1822) was an Italian Arbëresh jurist and scholar.

Life Born in Santa Sofia d'Epiro on 7 December 1758 to Noè and Vittoria Bugliari he first studied under Stefano Baffa. An alumnus of the faculty of law of the university of Naples, in 1809 he was appointed chief prosecutor of the court of cassation of Catanzaro and in 1810 royal commissioner of northern Calabria and Basilicata. In 1807, his best-known work Discorso sull'origine, costumi, e stato attuale della nazione Albanese was published in Naples. Using mostly classical works as sources, Masci grouped Illyrian, Macedonian and Epirote into one language family, which he considered the Ursprache of Albanian, but didn't name and identify it. His work influenced Conrad Malte-Brun, who republished it with the title Essai sur l'origine, les moeurs et l'état actuel de la nation albanaise in his Annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire. In turn, Malte-Brun's essays partially influenced Giuseppe Crispi, who wrote the first monograph on the Albanian language, however, unlike Masci, Malte-Brun and Crispi identified that language family with Pelasgian.

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1758
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1821

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Italian jurist and scholar

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Angelo Masci was born in 1758.

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Angelo Masci died in 1821.

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· Wikipedia: Angelo Masci

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