Ivan Gundulić

Died in 1638

Ivan Gundulić was born in Dubrovnik in January 1589, into a patrician family whose father was five times rector of the Republic. He studied with the Jesuits and became a senator; he would probably have become rector in his turn had he lived. He began with dramas adapted from the Italian, of which only four out of ten survive; he called his first writings a brood of darkness, and they are lost. He always refused to publish his great epic, which remained in manuscript until the nineteenth century and from which two cantos are missing. He died on 8 December 1638 and was buried with the Franciscans of his city.

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PoetrySuze sina razmetnogaIvan Gundulić · 1622not translated into EnglishLiterature