In early 1919, Rustemi began further studies at the Arberesh College of Saint Adrian in San Demetrio Corone in Calabria.
Mario Bellizzi (born 1957), a poet of the Arbëresh-speaking minority of southern Italy, was born in San Basile in the province of Cosenza.
Although the epicentre of this festival is in Shkumbin (Elbasan), the festival is widely celebrated in Tirana and as far afield as the Arbëresh colonies in Italy.