RRETH AUTORËSISË SË POEMËS “KËNGA E SPRASME E BALËS”
About The Authorship Of The Poem "Bala’s Last Song"

Summary/Abstract: Gabriello Dara (Junior) in his rather long preface to this poem presents it as the remnant of an Albanian bard immigrated into Sicily in the fifteenth century. Various scholars, however, have affirmed that Dara is the real author of this deed. Sharing this opinion, the author of the present aticle tries to shed more light on this question through an analysis based upon linguistic data. From this point of view, too, it becomes evident that the genuine author of “Kënga e sprasme e Balës” [‘Bala’s last song’] is Gabriello Dara himself, although one should not underestimate the great impact exerted upon him by the folk models and traditon of the Arbëreshë of Italy. In this regard, one can easily ascertain, inter alia, that there is no difference at all between the two preceding proses and the various parts of the poem “Kënga e sprasme e Balës” concerning the style and the linguistic means; it is evident that all of them have been written by one and the same author. The analysis of this deed clearly demonstrates that its author has represented in it the dialectal phonetical and grammatical traits of the Arbëresh idiom of his native village, Pallac Adrian (Sicily), founded by Albanian emigrants from Middle Albania in the second half of the fifteenth century and later populated also by a second flow of emigrants from the Arbëreshë of Morea (Greece). That has made possible a kind of dialectal koinJ, in which the South Albanian dialectal traits predominate, mixed however with certain elements of the North Albanian dialect. One can ascertain such a phenomenon throughout Dara’s work (both in prose and poetry), in which it is not difficult also to find out that he has succeeded in making use of a rich glossary, including several new creations of his own.

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