Italian scholar
Francesco Altimari () is an Italian scholar in the field of Albanology. He is honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania (2006), external member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo (2008) and full professor (1991) of the Albanology section of the University of Calabria.
Early life.
Altimari was born on 21 February 1955 in San Demetrio Corone in Calabria, Italy and is of Arbëreshë descent. After finishing the lyceum in his hometown in 1973, he graduated from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Calabria in 1978.
Academic life.
Altimari worked as a teacher of the Albanian language (1980–1986). From 1991 is full professor in Albanology in the University of Calabria; he started his academical career in the field of Albanian language, literature, and philology, and Balkanic philology and linguistics, first associated with the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Calabria, and followed later by University of Mannheim and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich via German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", "Cattolica" of Milan, as well as universities in Lecce, Trieste, Tirana, Shkodër, and Gjirokastër.
As of 2012, he is part of the editorial staff of albanological periodicals as Studia Albanica of Tirana and is scientific director of "Res Albanicae" of university Foundation "Francesco Solano" of the University of Calabria.
Altimari is also member of the AISEE (Associazione Italiana di Studi del Sud Est Europeo) since 1992, and member of Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese since 1999.
Publications.
Books and monographs.
Songs of Milosao. Critical edition of the three printed versions (1836, 1847, 1873) and of the fourth manuscript version (1896) by Francesco Altimari, Opera Omnia di Girolamo De Rada, vol. II, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore, 2017. 
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