SARAJEVO SARAJEVO, Feb 19 (Hina) - As a part of the marking of 550th anniversary of the birth of eminent humanist and Croatia and Latin poet Marko Marulic, the Croatian Culture Centre in Sarajevo will organise the presentation of the
book of Marulic's collected poems on February 22.
SARAJEVO, Feb 19 (Hina) - As a part of the marking of 550th
anniversary of the birth of eminent humanist and Croatia and Latin
poet Marko Marulic, the Croatian Culture Centre in Sarajevo will
organise the presentation of the book of Marulic's collected poems
on February 22.#L#
The centre will also organise a panel on Marulic, called "Marko
Marulic - Croatian Dante".
The anniversary of the birth of Marko Marulic will be marked in the
entire year 2000 under the auspices of the UNESCO by international
scientific seminars, exhibitions, and other events.
Marko Marulic, also called the father of Croatian literature, was
born in the southern Adriatic city of Split on August 18, 1450, and
died on January 5, 1524. He is the first well-known Croatian writer
who wrote poetry in Croatian but scientific work in Latin, by which
he gained fame across Europe.
His philosophical and theological book entitled On the Institution
of Good Living was published in fifteen editions and translated
into Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Czech. He was the
first to use the word psychology in The Psychology of the Reason of
the Human Soul.
In 1501, Marulic wrote his most important Croatian work, the epic
poem Judith, published in 1521, mostly with the idea of encouraging
his countrymen in their struggle against the Turks and of giving
them a message of hope that, with God's help, they would overcome
all difficulties. Judith was written for those who did not know
Latin. Their response was immediate: this first Croatian printed
literary work enjoyed three editions within two years.
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