Opus Barletiana: Two Texts and Two Philosophical Investigations (An academic paper held in "Scanderbeg's Year" Conference (2018)

Barleti's works have been seen, treated and analyzed in different directions. Despite this serious academic engagement with them, we still think that one aspect has remained untreated: they have not been studied from a philosophical perspective. To our knowledge, in the Albanian academic environment does not exist any specific study to shed light on the influence and incorporation of philosophical ideas inside Barleti’s works. Besides the traces of classic literature, we encounter in Barleti’s works many ideas from Greek and Roman Philosophy but also from thinkers of his time. The scope of this paper is to identify precisely this fact. Through his basic texts “Siege of Scodra”(1504) and “History of Scanderbeg”(1508-10) the purpose of those two philosophical investigations is to offer a clear tablo of philosophical point of views to which Barleti is referring and to note also the ideo-cultural background of this great man, writer and humanist of Scanderbeg’s Era.