Education
He attended school in Shkodër until 1938. After he completed his studies he was a teacher of Italian language in different schools in Albania.
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He attended school in Shkodër until 1938. After he completed his studies he was a teacher of Italian language in different schools in Albania.
Pipa received a Bachelor equivalent degree ("Laurea") in philosophy at the University of Florence in 1942. He was imprisoned for ten years (1946-1956) in Communist Albania because he antagonized the communist regime with his recitation of a verse from a "Song of the Flea" by Goethe found in a translation of Faust. After he was released from prison (his original sentence was 20 years, but after amnesty it was cut to 10) he escaped to Yugoslavia and lived in Sarajevo during the period 1957-1959.
In 1959 he emigrated to the United States where he taught at Adelphi College, Georgetown University, Columbia University, and University of California Berkeley.
Then, from 1966 to 1989, he was a professor of Italian literature in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Minnesota. Pipa died in Washington District of Columbia on July 20, 1997.