Bernardino Vitali

[1] Vitali was one of the albanesoti, Albanians who had settled in Venice mostly as refugees after the fall of Shkodra (northern Albania) to the Ottomans.

A close relative of Bernardino Vitali, Giovanni - possibly his grandson - was a priest and calligrapher from Brescia.

He lived in Vitali's house in San Zulian and produced a luxury copy of the code of regulation of the Scuola degli Albanesi in 1552.

One of the first publications of the Vitali brothers was Enneades, an early attempt at writing universal history by Sabellicus.

[2] Vitali published many of the works of Albanian humanists who had settled in Italy after the Ottoman conquest of the country.