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Sebastijan Slade Dolci: De Illyricae linguae vetustate et amplitudine Dissertatio historico-chronologico-critica. Auctore f. Sebastiano Dolci a Ragusio ... Ad ... dominum d. Joannem Garmogliesi ...
Attached to it: Epistola Hieronymi Francisci Zanettii in Dissertationem de linguae Illyricae vetustate et amplitudine confutata perpetuis animadversionibus in ejusdemZanetti disquisitionem de caussis sero corruptae eloquentiae apud veteres jureconsultos, seriusque apud recentiores restitute, auctore p. f. Sebastiano Dolci a Ragusio
Slade Dolci Sebastijan (Sebastianus Dolci), Croatian theologian, church historian and devotional writer (Dubrovnik, 1699 – Dubrovnik, 1 June 1777). The main preacher of the Dubrovnik Franciscans, he became famous for his Lenten sermons in Italian cities. He wrote Historical Records of the Franciscan Province of Dubrovnik (Monumenti storici della provincia Francescana di Ragusa, 1744), Anti-Critical Letter on the Age of the Bishopric of Dubrovnik (De Ragusini archiepiscopatus antiquitate epistola anticritica, 1761), a biography of St. Jeronima (Maximus Hieronymus, 1750), a discussion on the development of Slavic languages, especially Croatian (On the age and spread of the Illyrian language - De Illyricae linguae vetustate et amplitudine, 1754). The most important for literary history is his Dubrovnik literary chronicle or Review of writers who became famous in the Republic of Dubrovnik until 1766 (Fasti litterario-Ragusini sive virorum litteratorum Qui usque ad annum MDCCLXVI in Ragusina claruerunt Ditione, 1767), in which he presented 271 writers from Dubrovnik.
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