Giorgio Sisgoreo Explained
| Giorgio Sisgoreo |
| Birth Date: | 1445 |
| Death Date: | 1509 |
| Nationality: | Venetian (modern-day Croatia) |
| Other Names: | Juraj Šižgorić, Georgius Sisgoreus |
| Occupation: | poet |
Giorgio Sisgoreo, also known as Juraj Šižgorić[1] (la|Georgius Sisgoreus or Sisgoritus, hr|Juraj Šižgorić; ca. 1445–1509) was a Latinist poet from Venetian Dalmatia.
He was the first humanist from Šibenik and the central personality of Šibenik's humanist circle and also one of the most important figures in 15th-century cultural life of the Croatian people.[2]
His Elegiarum et carminum libri tres ("Book of elegies and poems", Venice, 1477) is considered the first published book by a Croatian poet. American historian J. V. A. Fine emphasizes that Šižgorić and Vinko Pribojević did not consider themselves to be Croats, but rather Slavic-speaking Venetians.[3]
Further reading
- Dukić, Davor: Latinska književnost hrvatskog humanizma, Katedra za stariju hrvatsku književnost Odsjeka za kroatistiku Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, 2007./2008.
- Leksikon hrvatskih pisaca (ed. D. Fališevac, K. Nemec, D. Novaković), Zagreb 2000.
Notes and References
- Web site: 2021 . Šižgorić, Juraj . 2023-10-10 . Croatian Encyclopedia . hr.
- Web site: 2023 . Enconium to the poet Juraj Šižgorić . 2023-10-10 . National and University Library in Zagreb . en.
- Book: Fine, John V. A. Jr.. When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. 1 January 2006. University of Michigan Press. 0-472-02560-0. 255. In comparing Šižgorić with Pribojević.... These individuals did not think of themselves as Croats..
