Nicola Chetta

Nicola Chetta
Native name	Nikollë Keta
Born	(1741-07-12)12 July 1741 Contessa Entellina, Sicily
Died	15 December 1803(1803-12-15) (aged 62) Palermo, Sicily

Nicola Chetta, (Arbërisht: Nikollë Keta; 12 July 1741 – 15 December 1803) was an Arbëresh writer and priest. He was born in Contessa Entellina, Sicily. He was educated at the Greek Orthodox seminary in Palermo. In 1777, Keta himself became rector of the seminary. As a poet, he wrote both religious and secular verse in Albanian and Greek, and has the honour of having composed the first Albanian sonnet (1777).^[1]

References

This biographical article about an Italian poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e