Fjalori italisht-shqip i Luca da Monte Giove (Dorëshkrim i vitit 1848)
The Italian-Albanian Dictionary by Luca da Monte Giove (The Manuscript of 1848)

Summary/Abstract: The Italian-Albanian dictionary is a manuscript written in 1848. The author is the Franciscan priest Luca da Monte Giove who has served in Albania (Pult, Dukagjin) for about 20 years. The purpose of this dictionary was to help the new missionaries acquire the Albanian language faster in order to perform their duties properly. The dictionary has the following order: It starts with the hand-made cover. Then, there follow three pages where Da Monte Giove writes a letter in Italian to the Archbishop G. Labella who had been appointed by Propaganda Fide to supervise the work for drafting the dictionary. In a separate page we can see the “approval” of the former Archbishop of Durres written in Italian. The main part of this dictionary (around 323 pages) is occupied by the wordlist. On the left side we see the words in Italian, and the Albanian translation on the right. In the end of the Work there is an additional part of 8 pages marked with Roman numbers. The three first pages and four lines of the fourth one contain proper names of persons. The title of the following part is The most common names of cities and nations. The four last pages contain “Albanian Proverbs and Phrases” along with their respective translation into Albanian. The dictionary has more than ten thousand Albanian words. The first to mention this dictionary is A.Gegaj and then M.Roques. The provide as well the indications as to the whereabouts of the dictionary (in the library of Lodi, Italy).

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