Background
Gundulić was born in Dubrovnik, the Republic of Ragusa (now Croatia) into a wealthy noble family on 8 January 1589. His father, Francesco Gundulić was once the Ragusan envoy to Constantinople and councillor of the republic.
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Suze sina razmetnoga is a poem written by the Croatian Baroque poet Ivan Gundulic. It was originally published in Venice in 1622. The poem is composed of three laments (plac): the Sin (Sagrijesenje), the Comprehension (Spoznanje) and the Humility (Skrusenje), presenting the three basic categories of Christianity sin, repentance and redemption through contrasts like death/life, sin/purity and Hell/Heaven.
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Gundulić was born in Dubrovnik, the Republic of Ragusa (now Croatia) into a wealthy noble family on 8 January 1589. His father, Francesco Gundulić was once the Ragusan envoy to Constantinople and councillor of the republic.
His father gave him an excellent education. He studied the “humanities” with the Jesuit, Father Muzzi, and philosophy with Father Ricasoli. After that he studied Roman law and jurisprudence in general.
Gundulić was member of the Lower Council and once served as the chief magistrate of the republic. He died on the 8th of December 1638.
A born poet, he admired much the Italian poets of his time, from whom he made many translations into Servian. It is believed that he so translated Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. He is known to have written eighteen works, of which eleven were dramas, but of these only three have been fully preserved, others having perished during the great earthquake and fire in 1667. Most of those dramas were translations from the Italian, and were played, seemingly with great success, by the amateurs furnished by the noble families of Ragusa.
But his greatest and justly celebrated work is an epic, entitled Osman, in twenty cantos. It is the first political epic on the Eastern Question, glorifying the victory of the Poles over Turks and Tatars in the campaign of 1621, and encouraging a league of the Christian nations, under the guidance of Vladislaus, the king of Poland, for the purpose of driving away the Turks from Europe. The fourteenth and fifteenth cantos are lost. It is generally believed that the Ragusan government suppressed them from consideration for the Sultan, the protector of the republic, those two cantos having been violently anti-Turkish.
Osman was printed for the first time in Ragusa in 1826, the two missing cantos being replaced by songs written by Pietro Sorgo (or Sorkochevich). From this edition the learned Italian, Francesco Appendini, made an Italian translation published in 1827. Since that time several other editions have been made. The best are considered to be the edition of the South Slavonic Academy in Agram (1877) and the edition published in Semlin (1889) by Professor Yovan Boshkovich. In the edition of 1844 (Agram) the last cantos, fourteen and fifteen, were replaced by very fine compositions of the Serbo-Croatian poet, Mazhuranich (Mažuranić). The complete works of Gundulich have been published in Agram, 1847, by V. Babukich and by the South Slavonic Academy of Agram in 1889.
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