Marin Barleti (Latin: Marinus Barletius, Italian: Marino Barlezio; c. 1450–1454 – c. 1512) was a historian, humanist and Catholic priest from Shkodër.
[3] According to linguist Eqrem Çabej, Barleti's surname can be derived from the original form Bardheci, from Albanian bardhë meaning 'white', with the suffix -eci, through the typical fluctuation between [ł]
When Shkodra finally fell to the Ottomans in 1479, Barleti escaped to Italy where he would become a scholar of history, classical literature and the Latin language.
Soon after Barleti arrived in Venice, he was given a stall at the Rialto meat market as a temporary means of financial aid.
[7] Barleti's second and largest work was The history of the life and deeds of Scanderbeg, the Prince of Epirus, (Latin: Historia de vita et gestis Scanderbegi Epirotarvm principis) was published in 1504 in Venice,[8] and later in Rome between 1508 and 1510; (2nd ed.
[10][11] Paolo Giovio was the first historian to confound Barletius with another contemporary Marinus Scodrensis, Marino Becichemi (1468-1526), professor of rhetorics and author of commentaries on classic literature.
Barleti's third work is titled, A Brief History of Lives of Popes and Emperors (Latin: Compendium vitarum pontificum et imperatorum, Venice, 1555).
30a; napomenom da je ovo pisao Marin Skadranin, rodom Sloven, "na u latinskom jeziku velmi učen".