WRITER

Marko Marulić

1450 - 1524

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Marko Marulić Splićanin (pronounced [mâːrko mǎrulitɕ splîtɕanin]; Latin: Marcus Marulus Spalatensis; 18 August 1450 – 5 January 1524), was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist. He is the national poet of Croatia. According to George J. Gutsche, Marulic'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." Marulić scholar Bratislav Lučin notes that he was well-versed in both the Christian Bible and in the Fathers of the Church. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marko Marulić has received more than 175,605 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Marko Marulić is the 885th most popular writer (up from 947th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Croatia (up from 34th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Croatian Writer.

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Notable Works

Davidias
Literary Criticism
A new critical edition of the Davidiad of Marko Maruli by the greatest expert in the field of the manuscript tradition of early Christian writings."
1954
Repertorium
Ethics
1998
Judita
1950
Latinski stihovi
2005
Latinska manja djela
1992
Plavca nova
1971
Latinska djela
1979
Davidiadis libri XIV
Poetry
1957
Judita
Poetry
1950
Davidias
Croatian literature, Poetry, Religion, philosophy
1954
Liber Marci Marvli Spalatensis de lavdibvs Hercvlis
Hercules (Roman mythology)
1524
Repertorium
Miscellanea, Ethics, Philosophy
1998

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marko Marulić ranks 885 out of 7,302. Before him are Ghassan Kanafani, Dashiell Hammett, Luis Sepúlveda, Joseph Campbell, Theodoret, and Fatema Mernissi. After him are Jorge Semprún, Marilyn vos Savant, Cormac McCarthy, Julien Green, Silius Italicus, and Kobayashi Issa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Marko Marulić ranks 12. Before him are Yejong of Joseon, Kara Ahmed Pasha, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Diogo Dias, Martin Schongauer, and Francisco de Almeida. After him are Gerard David, Veit Stoss, Ravidas, Zagan Pasha, Heinrich Isaac, and Gedik Ahmed Pasha. Among people deceased in 1524, Marko Marulić ranks 7. Before him are Vasco da Gama, Ismail I, Giulia Farnese, Claude of France, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, and Joachim Patinir. After him are Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Andrea Solari, Salaì, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, Hans Holbein the Elder, and Tang Yin.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Marko Marulić ranks 33 out of 700. Before him are Tomislav of Croatia (null), Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Miroslav Krleža (1893), Davor Šuker (1968), Omar Pasha (1806), and Stjepan Radić (1871). After him are Franz von Suppé (1819), Margaret of Hungary (1242), Stjepan Bobek (1923), Tomislav Ivić (1933), Ivan Gundulić (1589), and Ivan Meštrović (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Croatia

Among writers born in Croatia, Marko Marulić ranks 3. Before him are Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), and Miroslav Krleža (1893). After him are Ivan Gundulić (1589), Ljudevit Gaj (1809), Matthias Flacius (1520), Petar Zrinski (1621), Ödön von Horváth (1901), Slavenka Drakulić (1949), Marin Držić (1508), Tin Ujević (1891), and Niccolò Tommaseo (1802).

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