Literary school of Dubrovnik.

Leaving behind the dark ages of Croatia, where in the Balkans was developing a series of migrations and displacements of peoples, centuries later, the region of Dalmatia began to flourish as one of the most developed commercial areas of the Adriatic coast. Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik in Croatia, was his most acclaimed center, a unity between the Eastern and Western influences of the Italian Venice. Dubrovnik will have to demonstrate a unique culture in Europe. The Renaissance in Croatia, as it is still called today, owes much to Dubrovnik, especially in cultural and literary.

Many of the artistic expressions of Croatia flourished during this rich period. Ragusa for this was called the Slavic Athena. You experience a true cultural birth during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, literature, drama, architecture and sculpture. Among these, the so-called Rector of Dubrovnik, the most learned person in the city, as Dinko Ranjina, Dominiko Zlatarić and Ivan Gundulić. The latter was one of the greatest writers of the seventeenth century, wrote the poem Osman, where among other things it was announced the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Such was the literary impulse of Dubrovnik from school to do all those famous citizens that followed and who distinguished themselves in literature and the arts. The Republic of Ragusa formed from the fifteenth century, an independent state by the Kingdom of Hungary, laid the networks of nationalist sentiment in the region: Interestingly, in the fortress of San Lorenzo of Dubrovnik (Lovrijenac) are engraved with the Latin words "the Freedom can not be sold for all the gold in the world, not well pro toto libertas venditur auro. "

Petar Hektorović, born in 1487 on the island of Hvar (Stari Grad), was an important figure of the literary period of Dubrovnik. His major work is a poem dedicated to fishing and the sea tales of fishermen, Ribanje the Ribarsko prigovaranje, where in a sort of dialogue and realistic narrative recounts the beauty of their homeland. It was the period in which they were spoken in Ragusa two languages, Italian and dialect in the upper aristocratic class Ragusa Štokava-ijekava.

Among the literary figures of the period are cited Džore Držić, Marin Držić, Ivan Bunic Vučić, Ignjat Djurdjevic (Ignazio Giorgi), Ivan Gundulić (Giovanni Francesco Gondola), Dinko Zlatarić, Sisko Menčetić, Dinko Ranjina. Among these Marin Držić, known in Italy as the Marino Darsa, born in Ragusa-Dubrovnik in 1508, is regarded as one of the greatest dramatists and playwrights of the Croatian Renaissance, among his most important works are cited in particular komediole (Tirena 1548), Venus and Adonis (1551), the farce's hoax Stanac (1551), Dundo Maroje (Uncle Maroje) in the same period.