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500th anniversary of the birth of Marin Držić, playwright and lyricist (1508-1567)   
Countries : Croatia
Year : 2008
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Marin Držić (1508-1567) is considered the finest Croatian, and a significant European Renaissance writer. His works cover many fields: poetry, pastorals, comedies, political letters and pamphlets. Držić`s pastorals and comedies are still highly regarded as masterful examples of the genre, and are among the best in Renaissance European literature, filled with exuberant life and vitality, celebrating love, liberty and sincerity and mocking avarice, egoism and petty tyrants – both in family and in state. He was trained and ordained as a priest in spite of his rebel temperament and he was extroverted and had a warm personality. He had different careers as Rector of the University of Siena in Tuscany, interpreter, scrivener and church musician.
  • Updated:09-05-2008 3:14 pm
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