Hanibal Lucić () or Annibale Lucio (c. 1485 – 14 December 1553) was a Croatian Renaissance poet and playwright, author of the first secular

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in Croatian.

Biography

He was born to a Dalmatian

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of ''Antun'' and ''Goja'' in

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, where he spent most of his life. Early in his youth, he was a judge and later became a lawyer of the Hvar municipality. As a witness of the Hvar Rebellion in 1510, he was forced to flee to

Trogir Trogir (; historically known as Traù (from Dalmatian, Venetian and Italian: ); la, Tragurium; Ancient Greek: Τραγύριον, ''Tragyrion'' or Τραγούριον, ''Tragourion'') is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in S ...

and

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due to his disparaging stance towards the lower rebel peasantry. He referred to them as "''a bunch who have no thought''". His early literary work became associated with the translations of

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's work ( Croatian:''"iz latinske odiće svukavši u našu harvacku priobukal"''http://www.poezija-gedichte.com/Content-pid-218.html
). His writings are primarily recorded to be written in the Southern Čakavian dialect. He wrote drama ('' Robinja'', the first secular-themed play in history of

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) and

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, under heavy influence of

Francesco Petrarca Francesco Petrarca (; 20 July 1304 – 18/19 July 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch (), was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited w ...

, but the Croatian folklore is also included in his work. His admiration towards the feminine figure plays an important role in most of his poems. He was prone to self-criticism and had most of his work burned; the rest was salvaged and later published by his son ''Antonij''.

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Hanibal Lucić, životopis
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucic, Hanibal 1480s births 1553 deaths 16th-century Croatian poets 16th-century male writers Croatian dramatists and playwrights 16th-century Croatian people People from Hvar (city) 16th-century Venetian writers Republic of Venice poets Venetian Slavs Croatian male poets