Of honourable lineage
(Farie së ndeerme në Kuntisë u bii)

Of honourable lineage in Contessa was born

Nick Chetta, a scion of the Albanian soil.

He went to Palermo, to the Albanian home

Which received him like a featherless bird in a nest.

It clothed him, girded him with manners, with wisdom,

In the heat it refreshed him with its shade, like

The vine-stock readorning its withered branches,

And now a priest, the church took him for her spouse.

Like a lost bird he stretched his two wings

In Palermo and Contessa, both here and there

He sought honour for the Albanians in all his writings.

Like a silkworm he exhausted himself

And wove, embellished and wrote this treasure

To enrich Albania in every possible way.