Ivan Gundulić
Croatian baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa · Writers · Lived 1589 to 1638 · aged 49
Dživo Franov Gundulić, better known today as Ivan Gundulić, was the most prominent Ragusan Baroque. He is regarded as the Croatian national poet. His work embodies central characteristics of Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: religious fervor, insistence on "vanity of this world" and zeal in opposition to "infidels".
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Tomb of Ivan Gundulić in the Franciscan church, Dubrovnik, where his name is spelled as Dživo Franov Gundulić (in dative case, meaning: John, Francis' son, Gundulić)
Bronze relief on the statue of Ivan Gundulić in Dubrovnik, showing a scene from the ninth canto where Sunčanica is taken to the Sultan's harem
Gundulić's Dream by Vlaho Bukovac
Monument to Ivan Gundulić in Dubrovnik
First edition cover of Tears of the Prodigal SonAbout this person
Gundulić's major works - the epic poem Osman, the pastoral play Dubravka, and the religious poem Tears of the Prodigal Son - are examples of Baroque stylistic richness and, frequently, rhetorical excess.
