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Serafino Razzi: La storia di Ragusa
second edition
Razzi Serafino, Italian historian, theologian and poet (Florence, 13. XII. 1531 – Florence, 8. VIII. 1611). He was a monk of the Dominican monastery of St. Mark in Florence, from 1587 superior of all Dominican monasteries in the territory of the Dubrovnik Republic and vicar of the Dubrovnik Archdiocese (1588). Year In 1589 he stayed in Kotor as a preacher, and in 1598 he returned to Italy and settled in Perugia. Year In 1592, he published the work Life of Blessed Osana of Kotor (Vita della beata Ossana da Cattaro) in Florence, and in 1595 in Lucca History of Dubrovnik (La storia di Raugia; Croatian translation from 2010). It was the first printed history of that city, and he wrote it, as he says in the preface, based on Dubrovnik chronicles and letters from contemporaries. It consists of three books, the first of which covers the period up to 1400, the second from 1400 to 1571, while the third book contains a description of contemporary events, a topographical description of Dubrovnik, a description of laws and customs, and a list of the city's most prominent families. Three more of his works have been preserved in manuscript, among them the one on the history of the Dubrovnik Metropolis and its archbishops (a critical edition of that work was published in 1999). He was also involved in music, mathematics and philosophy.
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