Llukë Bogdani ( it, Luca Bogdani; 16?? - 1687) was an Ottoman poet of Albanian origin.

Life

Born near Prizren he studied in the Catholic school of Yanova (now

Janjevo Janjevo () or Janjevë (in Albanian) is a village or small town in the Lipljan municipality in eastern Kosovo. The settlement has a long history, having been mentioned for the first time in 1303 as a Catholic parish. The town was prior to the K ...

), joined the Austrian forces during the Great Turkish War under the guidance of his cousin Archbishop

Pjetër Bogdani Pjetër Bogdani (1627 – 6 December 1689), known in Italian as ''Pietro Bogdano'', was the most original writer of early literature in Albania. He was author of the Cuneus Prophetarum (''The Band of the Prophets''), 1685, the first prose work ...

and died near Kaçanik in 1687. An eight-line poem titled ''Pjetër Bogdanit, argjupeshkëpit Skupsë, kushërinit tim dashunit'' (Lit. ''To my dear cousin Pjetër Bogdani, Archbishop of Skopje'') and written by Llukë Bogdani was published in the first version

Cuneus Prophetarum ''Cuneus Prophetarum'' ( sq, Çeta e profetëve, en, The Band of the Prophets) is a philosophical, theological and scientific treatise written by Pjetër Bogdani, an Albanian philosopher, originally published in Padua in 1685 in Albanian and La ...

in 1685. Pjetër Bogdani apparently polished the verses of panegyric improvised by Llukë. In later versions of the work the poem was removed as it was considered laudatory, and thus religiously inappropriate.

References

1687 deaths People from Prizren Albanian Roman Catholics 17th-century Albanian people 17th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire Year of birth unknown Albanian male poets 17th-century Albanian poets Male poets from the Ottoman Empire 17th-century male writers {{Ottoman-bio-stub