Ivo Cipiko

Background

Ivo Ćipiko was born on the 13th of January 1869 in Kaštel Novi, Dalmatia, on the estate of his forefathers who came from Italy in the Middle Ages and settled along the Dalmatian coast.

Education

Ćipiko graduated from a forestry school in 1890 and worked as a forestry officer in Brač, Makarska, Hvar and Kotor until 1909.

Career

Ćipiko, like Simo Matavulj (1852-1903) before him, presented a picture of the South Adriatic that was not always sunny or blue. Ćipiko"s ancestors are believed to have been of Italian origin and Roman Catholics. Early in his education he came under the influence of Serbian literature, then popularized by the Serb-Catholic circle.

He then came to live in Serbia and devote himself to literary pursuits.

During the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 he was a military correspondent attached to the Serbian Army Headquarters. After the war, Ćipiko became one of the most ardent proponent of Jovan Skerlić"s unitarian ideas along with other Serbian writers from Croatia, Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as Mirko Korolija, Niko Pucić, Svetozar Ćorović and Aleksa Šantić.

Ćipiko died at Kaštel Novi on his family"s estate on the 23rd of September 1923.

Connections

Friend:

Petar Kočić