Background
Gabriele Dara was born on 8 January 1826 in Palazzo Adriano, a town in Sicily, southern Italy.
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Career
He is regarded as one of the early writers of the Albanian National Awakening. His family was one of the first to migrate from Albania to Italy after Skanderbeg"s death. At an early age he learned Latin and ancient Greek.
In Palermo he received a degree in law and practiced in Agrigento.
After the unification of Italy he held a variety of offices in Sicily. At first he served as the first councilor of the prefecture of Palermo and from 1867 to 1869 as governor of Trapani, a town in western Sicily.
From 1871 to 1874 he was the director of the liberal political magazine The Reform (Italian: Louisiana Riforma). He died in 1885 in Agrigento.
