Dinko Ranjina (also Domenico Ragnina) (1536–1607) was a
Croatian poet from the
Republic of Ragusa
hr, Sloboda se ne prodaje za sve zlato svijeta it, La libertà non si vende nemmeno per tutto l'oro del mondo"Liberty is not sold for all the gold in the world"
, population_estimate = 90 000 in the XVI Century
, currency = ...
(
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterran ...
). In 1556 he was accepted into the Republic's ruling Grand Council. He was married to the sister of Francesco Luccari Burina.
Life
Ranjina was born and died in Dubrovnik. He travelled to
Messina in the hopes of taking up trade and eventually made his way to
Florence
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. It was in Florence that he began to write.
He wrote extensively in both
Croatian (about 450 poems) and
Italian
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(about 30 sonnets) in the collection ''Rime scelte da diversi eccelenti autori'' from 1563. He also wrote the
Croatian songbook ''Pjesni razlike''.
Cosimo de' Medici admitted Ragnina to the
Order of St. Stephen. A few years later he returned to the Republic of Ragusa.
He died in 1607, 71 years old and well esteemed by everybody, after having been
Rector (''knez'') of the Ragusa government seven times.
See also
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Republic of Ragusa
hr, Sloboda se ne prodaje za sve zlato svijeta it, La libertà non si vende nemmeno per tutto l'oro del mondo"Liberty is not sold for all the gold in the world"
, population_estimate = 90 000 in the XVI Century
, currency = ...
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Croatian literature
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Dalmatian Italians
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Ranjina (family)
Notes
External links
Dizionario dei Dalmati: Domenico Ragnina, p. 265
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1536 births
1607 deaths
16th-century Croatian poets
16th-century male writers
Italian poets
Italian male poets
Ragusan nobility
Ragusan poets
Croatian male poets