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Ivan Kreljanović: Memorie per la storia della Dalmazia I. - II.
Kreljanović, Ivan (Albinoni), Croatian lawyer, historian and writer (? Kaštel Stari, 1777 – Venice, 3. VIII. 1838). After studying law in Padua and Venice, he worked as a lawyer in Zadar. From 1805, he was a city judge, and after the establishment of French rule in Dalmatia, he held prominent administrative positions during the governorship of Providor V. Dandola. From 1807 he was a district judge, and then a councilor of the Court of Appeal. He was entrusted with the judiciary for the work of the Main Administration of the Province of Dalmatia. He encouraged the development of education and influenced the opening of the Zadar public school and lyceum, of which he was the manager in 1806 and 1807. In 1808, he edited the newspaper Kraglski Dalmatin. After the establishment of the Austrian administration, he was appointed provincial teaching inspector (1814). At his instigation, a gymnasium was opened in Zadar in 1816. Due to the introduction of strict policing measures in schools, he resigned from the position of teaching inspector and permanently moved to Venice (1818). He wrote historical works and published Memories from the history of Dalmatia (Memorie per la storia della Dalmazia, I–II, 1809), in which he negatively evaluated the centuries-old Venetian administration in Dalmatia. He stood out as a writer and translator. He wrote several plays: Horace (Orazio, 1800), Manlius Capitolino (Manlio Capitolino, 1807), Constantine (Costantino, 1820), Epitus' sacrifice (Il sacrificio d'Epito, 1820); published a collection of poems Sincere respect (Il puro omaggio, 1804).
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