Mavro Vetranović
Mavro Vetranović ( Mauro Vetrani ) (* 1482 in Dubrovnik , Republic of Ragusa ; † 1576 ) was a Dalmatian writer and Benedictine .
Life
Vetranović was born in 1482 in Dubrovnik in the then Republic of Ragusa, (now Croatia ). In 1507 he joined the Benedictine order on the island of Mljet , after studying in Monte Cassino in Italy , he returned to Mljet as abbot of the monastery. In the 16th century the monastery was the center of the Mljet Congregation (Congregatio Melitensem or Melitanam), where all the monasteries of the Benedictine monks in the area of the Republic of Dubrovnik were gathered, and Vetranović was the first president of the congregation.
He wrote a lot, leaving behind a large collection of works including prose , drama , religious and satirical poetry, and an unfinished epic poetry that includes 4,374 verses. In his writing, he emerged as a patriotic Ragusan who may have shared an identity with other Dalmatians and Croatians as well.
The Croatian scientist Franjo Švelec divided the work of Vetranović into three periods. In the first, through the late 1520s, his subjects were mainly youth and poetry with romantic and mythological themes. In the second, until the late 1540s, it was dominated by "serious" issues. In the last, until the end of his life, he returned a little to the themes of his youth and thus closed the cycle of life and the creative journey.
Works
Individual evidence
- ^ WorldCat
- ^ Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman: The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries ( en ). Princeton University Press, 2016, ISBN 9781400880638 , p. 136.
- ↑ When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods February 5, 2010, ISBN 0472025600 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vetranović, Mavro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vetrani, Mauro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dalmatian writer and Benedictine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1482 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dubrovnik |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1576 |