(20 April, 2017) Albania has conferred an honorary degree to Matteo Mandalà, professor of Albanian Language and Literature at the University of Palermo. The ceremony was attended by the Italian Ambassador to Tirana, Alberto Cutillo and other representatives of the Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana. Mandalà was awarded this prestigious award for being “an estimated Albanologist, historian, and Arbëreshe and Albanian literature scholar from the origins until contemporary times; a linguist and editor of Albanian texts from different literary periods; an intellectual with a vast spectrum of research interests; a research who has made original contributions in Albanology; illustrious representative of Albanian scientific thought in the current academic and university world”. (red)
