Diet of Dalmatia - Elected Representatives

Elected Representatives

Autonomist Party

From Zadar

• Vittorio Bioni
• Cosimo de Begna Possedaria
• Vincenzo Duplancich
• Antonio Smirich (from 1863: Giovanni Salghetti-Drioli)
• Antonio Bajamonti
• Spiro Petrović
• Natale Filippi
• Giacomo Ghiglianovich
• Francesco Borreli

From Split

• Leonard Dudan
• Giorgio Giovannizio
• Luigi Lapenna
• Vincenzo degli Alberti

From Šibenik

• Antonio Galvani

From Makarska

• Giacomo Vucovich

From Dubrovnik

• Giovanni Radmilli
• Luigi Serragli

From Korcula

• Giovanni Smerchinich

From Hvar

• Girolamo Macchiedo
• Giovanni Macchiedo
• Girolamo Vusio

From Skradin

• Simeone Bujas
• Giovanni Marasović

From Drnis

• Melchiorre Difnico

From Trogir

• Antonio Radman
• Antonio Fanfogna

From Sinj

• Josip Dešković
• Anton Buljan

From Imotski

• Niccolò Mirossevich

People's Party

From Dubrovnik

• Miho Klaic
• Marino Giorni

From Kotor

• Josip Gjurović (from 1863 Kosta Vojnović)
• Bernardo Verona (from 1863 Josip Banović-Damianović)

From Benkovac

• Petar Radulović

From Drnis

• Pane Sablić
• Krsto Kulišić

From Vrgorac

• Miho Pavlinović

From Cavtat

• Djure Pulić

From Ston

• Krsto Jerković

From Budva

• Luka Tripcović
• Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša

President of the Diet: Spiro Petrović (Autonomist Party)

In this first election had not yet radicalized the identification between the Autonomist Party and the Party of the People respectively with the Italians and Croats (or more generally the Slavs of Dalmatia): the idea of Dalmatian Nation with the Niccolo Tommaseo ideas - that is, a nation-bridge between Slavia and Italy - had breached even among the Dalmatian ethnic Slavs, so that among some members are elected Serb separatists (Petrović) or bilingual, with Croatian mother language (Buljan, Bujas, Marassovich and Mirossevich). At the same time, among annexationists all know the Italian language and some (Days and Verona) were also ethnically Italian: the chronicles of the time even reported that some annexationists members were derided for their inability to speak in Croatian.

On 18 April 1861, the Diet passed a motion submitted by Baiamonti and Galvani and to reject the request for union Dalmatian for Croatia and Slavonia. Only two were the dissenting votes.