1450
Marko Marulić, Croatian poet and author (died 1524)
Marko Marulić, Croatian poet and author (died 1524)
Marko Marulić, Croatian poet and author (died 1524)
Marko Marulić
Croatian national poet and European humanist
- Born
- 1450
Marko Marulić Splićanin was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist. He is the national poet of Croatia. According to George J. Gutsche, Marulić's epic poem Judita "is the first long poem in Croatian", and "gives Marulić a position in his own literature comparable to Dante in Italian literature." Marulić's Latin poetry is of such high quality that his contemporaries dubbed him "The Christian Virgil." He has been called the "crown of the Croatian medieval age", the "father of the Croatian Renaissance", and "The Father of Croatian literature."