Arshi Pipa
Pipa received a BA equivalent degree ("Laurea") in philosophy at the University of Florence in 1942.[3] After he was released from prison (his original sentence was 20 years, but after amnesty it was cut to 10) he escaped to Yugoslavia and lived in Sarajevo during the period 1957–9.Then, from 1966 to 1989, he was a professor of Italian literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Minnesota.[6] The first poetry Pipa composed in late 1930, Lundërtarë [Seamen], was published in Tirana in 1944.[7] His epic poem Rusha (1968), composed in 1955 during his imprisonment, describes love between Albanians and Serbs in the late 14th century.