Francesco Maria Appendini - Second Volume of Appendini's Work

Second Volume of Appendini's Work

The second volume of Appendini's work looks at the literature of Republic of Ragusa. The author gives attention to the local writers who have written in Italian (or Latin), and those who have written in the vernacular Slavic-Croatian.

Among the historians are:

• Meletius, who wrote in the 12th century in Latin verse concerning the history of Epidaurum and of Ragusa.
• Ludovico Cerva or Cervano, surnamed Tuberone, who wrote on the history of the Turks, "De Turcarum Origine, Moribus et Rebus gestis Commentarius", Florence 1590.
• Matthias Flaccus Illyricus, who went to Germany, and become a Lutheran. He was one of the main compilers of the "Centuriae Magdeburgensis"'
• Luccari, who wrote in Italian the Annals of Ragusa till the end of the 16th century.
• Mauro Orbini, author of a history of the Slavic principalities established in Roman Dalmatia and other parts of Europe during the middle ages.
• Eusebio Caboga, who wrote in Latin the "Annals of Republic of Ragusa'' and the lives of its bishops.
• Giunio Resti, who wrote history of the Republic in Italian.
• Benedetto Orsinich, author of a genealogical history of the Komnenos dynasty.
• Anselmo Banduri, the author of the " Imperium Orientale".
• Sebastiano Dolci, a Franciscan, who wrote "De Illyricae Linguae Vetustate et Amplitudine," Venice 1754 and "I Fasti Letterarii- Ragusei," Venice 1767 and also a commentary on the life and works of Saint Jerome, printed at Ancona in 1750.

Amongst other residence of Dubrovnik were the physician Baglivi; the mathematician Roger Joseph Boscovich; several members of the family of Stay (Stojic), Raimondo Cunich, the author of many Latin poems and for a long time a professor in the Gregorian college at Rome; Bernardo Zamagna, who translated into Latin the Odyssey, Hesiod, Theocritus, and Moschus; Cardinal Giovanni Stoiko, who was sent as legate to the council of Basle; Simone Benessa, a jurist, the author of a book on the practice of the courts of Ragusa and Benedetto Cotrugli, who was employed in several important offices of state, such as the Kingdom of Naples. He wrote a work on the profession of commerce and the duties of a merchant, "Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto" (Book on the Art of Trade), published in Venice in 1573.

Lastly, the Second volume gives a list of poets who wrote in the Slavic languages. Ivan Gundulic (Giovanni di Francesco Gondola) was amongst them. He also notices several Slavic poets of other parts of Dalmatia and of Bosnia and Montenegro, their Popevke (ballads). Appendini's book contains one of the most complete views of the Republic as it was before its military occupation by the French in 1806.