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Marko Marulić was born in 1450 in Split, at that time part of the Venetian empire, where he was first schooled in the Liberal Arts. He compiled a collection of excerpts from classical authors, the Bible, and early Christian writers, and earned fame with his Instruction on How to Lead a Virtuous Life Based on the Examples of the Saints. His epic poem in Croatian about the Old Testament heroine Judith (1501, first published in 1521) makes him the Father of Croatian literature. He wrote mostly in Latin, and both his prose and his verse are steeped in the tradition of Christian humanism. Writing until his last days, Marulić died in 1524. The Davidiad is Marulić’s ultimate masterpiece, writt...
A new critical edition of the Davidiad of Marko Marulic by the greatest expert in the field of the manuscript tradition of early Christian writings.
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