1. Risto Siliqi was an Albanian poet, publicist, lawyer, and militant of the Albanian national cause.
21 Facts About Risto Siliqi
1. 2.
Risto Siliqi's work was influenced by ideas and sentiments of the Romantic-Nationalism like other poets of the national Awakening before him.
3.
Risto Siliqi pursued his first education in the Serbian language school in his town, and later in Ruzdiye, where he would immediately spike out for his anti-Ottoman propaganda among the students.
4.
Risto Siliqi did not stop his nationalist activity for the 10 years that he was in exile.
5.
Risto Siliqi traveled to Romania and Bulgaria to meet with the Albanian communities there.
6.
Risto Siliqi was an active arms-in-hand participant of the Albanian Revolt of 1911, and together with his collaborators Hil Mosi and Luigj Gurakuqi member of its leadership structure "the Albanian Committee".
7.
Risto Siliqi participated in the meeting of Gerce and was a signatory of the Gerce Memorandum.
8.
Risto Siliqi started working immediately on the unification of stance between Christian and Muslim communities.
9.
Risto Siliqi managed to take an open stance against all of these.
10.
Risto Siliqi was a founding member of the patriotic club "Lidhja Shqiptare", and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Shqypnija e Re, with Hil Mosi as director and Karlo Suma as treasurer.
11.
Risto Siliqi resigned from the "Lidhja Shqiptare" due to his disagreement on calling the Montenegrin side for military help in order to suppress the Essadist and pro-Turkish units in Shkoder.
12.
Risto Siliqi joined the volunteer units that went to aid Prince Wied against the Muslim rebels of Haxhi Qamili.
13.
Risto Siliqi worked as a judge in Vlore in 1921, and in 1923 he became First Secretary of the Ministry of Justice.
14.
Risto Siliqi worked as a lawyer for the rest of his life, precisely until 1 May 1936.
15.
Risto Siliqi completely possessed Albanian language as a language of letters after he got in touch with the work of other National Awakening poets.
16.
Risto Siliqi mostly used trochaic verses with a very few iambic.
17.
Risto Siliqi used 6,7,10,12,16 syllable verses, where 6 and 7 mostly in the iambs, and 6,8,10 dominate the trochees, sometimes even mixed metrics.
18.
Risto Siliqi's message was clear "S'kemi c'presim nga Evropa".
19.
Similar to Asdreni, Risto Siliqi gives social nuances to his poetry in addition to patriotic ones.
20.
Risto Siliqi's "hero" is the idealist peasant, who leaves all behind and goes to fight for his own country.
21.
The first collection of his selected poetry, both previously published or unpublished, came in 1956, one year after direct guidelines from the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania demanding the figure of Risto Siliqi to be studies and brought to light.