SPLIT, Feb 24 (Hina) - An exhibition on Croatia's great humanist and writer Marko Marulic will open in Lisbon on March 8. The exhibition is organised by Split's literature circle and the Lisbon National Library.
SPLIT, Feb 24 (Hina) - An exhibition on Croatia's great humanist and
writer Marko Marulic will open in Lisbon on March 8.
The exhibition is organised by Split's literature circle and the
Lisbon National Library.#L#
The exhibition, called "Croatian Humanist Marko Marulic" will be
held on the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the writer's birth
and 500th anniversary of his death. The exhibition will remain open
until April 19.
The days of Marko Marulic will be held in the southern Adriatic city
of Split between April 23 and 25. The central event will be a
scientific meeting called "Marko Marulic, the Father of Croatian
Literature". The meeting will be attended by participants from
Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Italy, Canada, Hungary,
Germany and Spain.
An exhibition and seminar on Marulic will also be held Washington's
Congress Library on April 11.
The seminar is organised by the Congress Library and the Croatian
Academy of Arts and Science through the mediation of the Croatian
Embassy in Washington.
Marulic was born in Split in 1450, which at the time was a part of the
Venetian Republic, and died in 1524.
Marulic, whom the Croatian people honoured by naming him the Father
of Croatian Literature, Croatia's Dante, and Marul the Great, is
the most read and published Croatian author of all time. Some of his
works have had up to 100 editions.
Marulic had been a judge and a lawyer. He made a name for himself as a
humanist and man-of-letters among Croats and the Renaissance
Europe.
His works in Latin, mostly moralistic, were translated into many
European languages and had numerous editions. His philosophical
and theological book entitled "On the Institution of Good Living"
was published in fifteen editions and translated in Italian,
French, Portuguese, German, and the Czech. He had been 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", which was published in 1521 as a form of
encouragement to his countrymen in their struggle against the
Turks. "Judith" was written for those who did not know Latin. The
response was immediate, Croatia's first printed literary work
enjoyed three editions in two years.
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