Summary
Juraj Maljevac: Horvaczka od Kristussevoga narodyenya vittia
Ex libris Ivo Dubravčić
Malevac (Maljevac), Juraj (Gregur Kapucin), Croatian writer (Perudina near Vinica in Carniola, March 2, 1734 – Varaždin, January 29, 1812). From 1755 he was a member of the Capuchin order. It is assumed that he was educated in Zagreb, where he was ordained in 1760 and where he spent most of his life. In Croatian Kajkavian, he wrote works on religious and secular themes, often of an appropriate nature. In the three-volume epic chronicle Nestrančno vezdašnjega tabor izpisavanje (1789, 1790 and 1791) he recorded in verses the events related to the Austro-Russian war against the Turks. His other two more significant works are religious and instructive: the versed narrative allegory The Heavenly Shepherd is looking for an executed sheep (1795) retells the Gospel parable about the lost sheep and the good shepherd, and Horvacka od Kristuševo narodnja vitius (1800) deals with the birth of Christ in the Bethlehem stable.
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