Giovanni de Rubertis

{{Short description|N poet and translator}}

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| name = Giovanni de Rubertis

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1813|12|25}}

| birth_place = Acquaviva Collecroce

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1889|04|20|1813|12|25}}

| death_place = Acquaviva Collecroce

| nationality = Italian

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| known_for = being a member of the Serbian Learned Society

| occupation = principal of gymnasium

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Giovanni de Rubertis (25 December 1813 – 20 April 1889) was an Italian poet and translator of the Molise Slavs.

Born in Acquaviva Collecroce (Kruč), he was the principal of the Casacalenda gymnasium. He proved key for the preservation of national consciousness and identity among the Serbs in Molise. He was a great friend with Medo Pucić, whose lyrics were translated into Italian. During his research on the Serbs in the south of Italy, Risto Kovačić visited De Rubertis in 1884.{{cite journal | url = http://www.srpsko-nasledje.rs/sr-l/1998/03/article-17.html | title = Skavuni i njihove izvorske vile | journal = Srpsko nasleđe | first = Miodrag | last = Mihajlović }}{{full citation needed|date=December 2022}}{{better source needed|date=December 2022}} From January 1885 he became a correspondent member of the Serbian Learned Society.{{cite web | url = https://www.sanu.ac.rs/clan/rubertis-djovani-de/ | title = ЂОВАНИ ДЕ РУБЕРТИС (Giovanni de Rubertis) | publisher = Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts }}

According to Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, De Rubertis considered the Schiavoni (Slavs) or Dalmati (Dalmatians) of Molise as Serbs that were brought there by Skanderbeg during his Italian expedition in 1460—1462 along with the Albanians.{{cite book|last=Kovačić|first=Risto|author-link=Risto Kovačić|title=Glasnik Srpskoga učenog društva, Volume 62|year=1885|publisher=Serbian Learned Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQQbAAAAMAAJ&q=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8+%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8|access-date=21 July 2011|pages=273–340 [281] |chapter=Srpske Naseobine u Južnoj Italiji |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQQbAAAAMAAJ&q=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8+%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B8 |quote=По господину де Рубертису, вели госп. Асколи ондје, први Срби — или како их онамо обичније зову Schiavoni или Dalmati — дошли су у Молизе заедно с Арбанасима (Албанези) што их је онамо довео Скендербег.}}

He died in Acquaviva Collecroce.