Đuro Ferić, also Giorgio Ferrich, (May 5, 1739 – 1820) was a poet and a

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of the

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. As a poet, he belonged to the Illyrian circle in Ragusa (now

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was synonymous with the

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at that time. His collection of Illyrian fables, published in Ragusa in 1794, bore the Latin title ''Fabulae ab Illyricis adagiis disumptae'', and a second similar text, existing only in manuscript, was titled: ''Adagia illirycae linguae fabulis explicata''. An unpublished collection of his own Slavic poems was titled in Latin: ''Slavica Poematia Latine reddita''. In the second decade of the 19th century he published in Ragusa two further works in Croatian (Slovinski). Ferić put together a collection of short poems in praise of those Ragusan poets who wrote in the Illyrian language, such as Dominko Zlatarić's translation of ''

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'' and

Ivan Gundulić Dživo Franov Gundulić ( it, Gianfrancesco Gondola; 8 January 1589 – 8 December 1638), better known today as Ivan Gundulić, was the most prominent Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa (now in Croatia). He is regarded as the Croatian nati ...

's ''Osman''.

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Ferić, Đuro

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Giorgio Ferrich
Croatian Jesuits People from Dubrovnik 1739 births 1820 deaths 18th-century Croatian people 19th-century Croatian people 18th-century Roman Catholics 19th-century Roman Catholics Ragusan Jesuits {{Croatia-bio-stub

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