Il Barone Carlo Musajo Somma di Galesano con S.A.R. la Principessa Marina di Savoia
Vive a Piacenza il Barone Carlo Musajo Somma di Galesano, discendente dei Despoti dell'Epiro medioevale. Il Barone è un personaggio molto noto a Piacenza e non solo; giornalista pubblicista, Presidente del Sodalizio Amici della tavola, membro di molte associazioni culturali di cui cura le pubbliche relazioni. Ha lasciato l'Aeronautica con 37 anni di servizio (grazie alla categoria volo). Nei 18 anni trascorsi a Milano ha diretto il Nucleo fotografico per le pubbliche relazioni dei Generali Comandanti della 1^ Regione Aerea. Ben 18 anni or sono Sua Santità Papa Giovanni Paolo II gli ha conferito, motu proprio, la Commenda dell'Ordine Equestre di San Silvestro I Papa. Recentemente Sua Santità Papa Benedetto XVI gli ha conferito la Commenda con Placca d'Argento (Gr.Uff) dello Stesso Ordine (Onorificenze Equestri conferite direttamente da S.S. il Papa). Nelle Sue molteplici attività è coadiuvato egregiamente dalla Baronessa Maria Grazia. Il suo illustre antenato Giovanni Musachi fu autore nel 1510 del testo di carattere storico -genealogico Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi in cui illustrò il ruolo di primo piano tenuto da tale Casato nella Storia albanese-epirota. L'opera fu pubblicata a Parigi in Charles Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines, Paris 1873, p. 270-340.
Pubblichiamo un articolo su Giovanni Musachi in lingua inglese di modo che sia comprensibile anche agli amici stranieri che seguono il nostro blog.
Giovanni Musachi, in Albanian language: Gjon Muzaka Italian-language author and Albanian nobleman from a ruling family of the Myzeqe region, Albania. In 1510 he wrote a Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi (Short memoir on the descendents of our Myzeqe lineage). The work was published in Charles Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines,Paris1873,p.270-340.
Brief Chronicle on the Descendants of our Musachi Dynasty
The chronicle or memoir of John Musachi (Ital. Giovanni Musachi) constitutes the oldest substantial text written by an Albanian. Musachi, despot of Epirus, was of a noble, ruling family from the Myzeqe region of central Albania. He was forced to abandon his land and take flight to Italy when Albanian resistance to the Ottoman conquest collapsed and the country was occupied by the Turks. The prime objective in his chronicle was not to provide a history of his times, but simply to prove to his descendants that they were of an important, landowning family so that they did not forget their origins and property rights. While the chronicle is no work of great scholarship and may prove confusing to students of history, it is nonetheless an important source not only for late fifteenth-century Albania, but also for Albanian toponyms and the names of local Albanian rulers. Indeed it is significant as proof of the rise of the Albanians as a distinct ethnic group.
Appendixed to the chronicle, though not included here, is a text by John's son, Constantine Musachi, dated 1535, in which the latter states that his father "was buried in the large church of Francavilla in the country of Otranto in a marble grave where mass is conducted three times a week. On it is an inscription reading: Almighty Jesus, this is the grave of John Musachi, the son of Gjin the Despot, Lord of Epirus and of Myzeqe, who stemmed from the city of Byzantium and bore the double headed eagle as his emblem. To him was dedicated this wreath in the year of our lord 1510." For this reason, the following chronicle is traditionally dated 1510. A reference in the text to the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514 proves, however, that John Musachi cannot have died before 1515.
Giovanni Musachi, in Albanian language: Gjon Muzaka Italian-language author and Albanian nobleman from a ruling family of the Myzeqe region, Albania. In 1510 he wrote a Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi (Short memoir on the descendents of our Myzeqe lineage). The work was published in Charles Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines,Paris1873,p.270-340.
Brief Chronicle on the Descendants of our Musachi Dynasty
The chronicle or memoir of John Musachi (Ital. Giovanni Musachi) constitutes the oldest substantial text written by an Albanian. Musachi, despot of Epirus, was of a noble, ruling family from the Myzeqe region of central Albania. He was forced to abandon his land and take flight to Italy when Albanian resistance to the Ottoman conquest collapsed and the country was occupied by the Turks. The prime objective in his chronicle was not to provide a history of his times, but simply to prove to his descendants that they were of an important, landowning family so that they did not forget their origins and property rights. While the chronicle is no work of great scholarship and may prove confusing to students of history, it is nonetheless an important source not only for late fifteenth-century Albania, but also for Albanian toponyms and the names of local Albanian rulers. Indeed it is significant as proof of the rise of the Albanians as a distinct ethnic group.
Appendixed to the chronicle, though not included here, is a text by John's son, Constantine Musachi, dated 1535, in which the latter states that his father "was buried in the large church of Francavilla in the country of Otranto in a marble grave where mass is conducted three times a week. On it is an inscription reading: Almighty Jesus, this is the grave of John Musachi, the son of Gjin the Despot, Lord of Epirus and of Myzeqe, who stemmed from the city of Byzantium and bore the double headed eagle as his emblem. To him was dedicated this wreath in the year of our lord 1510." For this reason, the following chronicle is traditionally dated 1510. A reference in the text to the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514 proves, however, that John Musachi cannot have died before 1515.
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