 "), was a nationalist poem on the defense of Ulcinj, which was written in Italian and printed in the Osservatore Cattolico ("Catholic Observer") of Milan in 1878.Like many Albanian intellectuals of the late 19th century, Shiroka spent much of his life in exile.In 1880, after the defeat of the League of Prizren, he emigrated to the Middle East, and settled in Egypt and Lebanon where he worked as an engineer in railway construction.