Giorgio Radovani

Radovani was born in İşkodra (Shkodër), at the time part of the Ottoman Empire (modern northern Albania) in 1734.

From 1767 to 1771 he served as the apostolic vicar of the Diocese of Sofia and Plovdiv.

During his tenure he founded the diocese's first Catholic school in the village of Sheldi.

[1] In 1776 he submitted his Albanian translations of the Catholic prayers for publication to the Propaganda Fide.

In 1788 he mediated the negotiations between the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II and Kara Mahmud Bushati regarding an anti-Ottoman alliance between the two factions.

First page from Pun t'nevoiscime by Radovani, printed most probably in 1776 by Propaganda Fide in Rome.