Ferić Đuro: Periegesis orae rhacusanae duobus libris comprehensa

Name: Periegesis orae rhacusanae duobus libris comprehensa
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Author: Ferić Đuro

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Author: Ferić Đuro
Publisher: Martecchini
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Periegesis orae rhacusanae duobus libris comprehensa

Ferić Đuro

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Đuro Ferić (Georgio Ferrich): Periegesis orae rhacusanae duobus libris comprehensa

History of Dubrovnik and its surroundings in verse by Đuro Ferić, (Gvozdenica; Dubrovnik, 1739 - Dubrovnik, 1820), poet and translator. He comes from a poor merchant family from Dubrovnik. He was educated by the Jesuits and became a member of their Society, obtained a doctorate in philosophy, was ordained a priest in 1762, and after the abolition of the order he was a professor at the Dubrovnik gymnasium, and then chancellor at the French consulate. Appointed canon and then elected archpriest. From 1815 until his death, he was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Dubrovnik. He was a member of the Roman Academy of Arcadia. Started writing late. He collected folk proverbs and sayings and translated them into Latin following the example of Aesop, Phaedrus and La Fontaine. About folk (oral) songs, he exchanged a well-known epistle in verses with the German historian Johannes Muller from Vienna, to whom he sent 37 songs in Latin, including the famous Hasanaginica. He also sent such poetic epistles to other contemporaries: M. Denis and J. Bajamonti. He published his translations of Aesop's and Phaedrus' fables in Croatian (1813). This led him to a stronger interest in local history, oral tradition, and folklore. The greatest value is his Latin poem Description of the Dubrovnik coast< (Periegesis orae Rhacusanae 1803). It is equally a poetic travelogue about the coast and islands of the Republic of Dubrovnik, but also an enlightening-mercantilist treatise on the customs, economy and history of the Dubrovnik region. He reworked the sayings (Apophthegmata) of Erasmus of Rotterdam, but that work, like many others, remained in manuscript. (HR8)

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