Marko Marulić
Croatian national poet and European humanist · Writers · Lived 1450 to 1524 · aged 73
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."
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Monument in Knin.
Bust of Marko Marulić by Ivan Meštrović in Split.
Cover sheet of Marulić's Evangelistarium, 1571 Tuscan-language edition, translated by Silvano Razzi from Latin original.
Marko Marulić's illustration for Judita, a page from second edition, Zadar 1522.
The Order of Danica Hrvatska with the face of Marko Marulić is a Croatian state decoration awarded for special merit in culture.About this person
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."
