Marin Držić

Died in 1567

Marin Držić was born in Dubrovnik around 1508, into a large and well-off family of commoner merchants, with six sisters and five brothers. Ordained a priest in 1526, he was a cleric and then organist of the cathedral, and in 1528 left to study canon law in Siena, where he was elected vice-rector of the university; he gradually lost his taste for study and returned home in 1543. He travelled as far as Vienna and Istanbul and squandered his mother's inheritance. His comedies mock avarice and the patricians of his city. He settled in Venice in December 1562, where his brother was a painter, and died there suddenly on 2 May 1567.

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TheatreHekubaMarin Držić · 1559not translated into EnglishLiterature