[1] Camarda, along with Girolamo De Rada were the main two initiators of the Italo-Albanian (Arbëreshë) cultural movement in Italy during the second half of the 19th century.
Forced to leave Piana degli Albanesi and Sicily because of the Army of the Two Sicilies police's strong suspicions about his feelings as a patriot and conspirator, he moved in exile to Livorno with the assignment of administering the local church of the Santissima Annunziata of the Byzantine Rite.
Two years later he completed his impressive scholarly endeavor by publishing the volume Appendix to the Essay on Comparative Grammatology, in which he collected, again for exclusively scientific purposes, conspicuous folkloric and literary material from all Albanian-speaking geographical areas of Italy,Greece and, of course, Albania.
In the Foreword to the Appendix Camarda outlined a number of hypotheses about the formation of the Albanian folk poetic heritage that remain substantially current and valid enough to meet with the approval of contemporary scholars.
Among his other cultural activities, no lesser are his political-literary endeavors, which led him to forge fraternal friendships with leading exponents of the Albanian Rilindja (Rebirth) movement,[5] both Italian and foreign, with whom he actively collaborated so that Albania, too, would achieve its longed-for national freedom and independence.