Džore Držić
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Džore Držić (Croatian pronunciation: [dʒǒːre dř̩ːʒitɕ]; Italian: Giorgio Darsa) (February 6, 1461 – September 26, 1501) was a Ragusan poet and playwright,[1] one of the fathers of Croatian literature.
A citizen of the Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia), the uncle of the greatest Croatian playwright Marin Držić, the rector of the Church of All Saints,[2] the chancellor of the Dubrovnik chapter, a contemporary of the poet Marko Marulić, created a poetic opus that became a primal expression of the linguistic form that would become the official Croatian language.
His poetry proves that his humanist roots had a beneficial effect on his poetic diction and other qualities, such as discreetness and spirituality. It makes his love poems very different from those of his older contemporary and eternal rival, Šiško Menčetić. Držić's Pjesni ljuvene (Love Poems) must have been very popular in Dubrovnik. By the time the noble Nikša Ranjina started filling his famous manuscript collection with love poems composed by young citizens of Dubrovnik for their ladies, Držić was six years dead, but Ranjina included his poems. It means they were recited and remembered.
In fact, they are easy to remember. Some of his poems go beyond the conventional rhetorical style of
His
See also
- Republic of Ragusa
- List of notable Ragusans
- Dubrovnik
- Dalmatia
- History of Dalmatia
References
- ISBN 9783111393964.
- ^ Živojin Boškov (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 106.
Sources
- Držić, Džore at lzmk.hr (in Croatian)
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