Petar Hektorović (1487 – 13 March 1572) was a Croatian writer. Hektorović, also known as Pietro Ettoreo or Piero Hettoreo, was born and died in Stari Grad,

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. He was a poet and collector of Hvar's fishermen songs, and an important figure of the

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period in

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. He also wrote in

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and in

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, language in which he wrote his testament.http://ia600308.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/3/items/pjesmepetrahekt01kuhagoog/pjesmepetrahekt01kuhagoog_tif.zip&file=pjesmepetrahekt01kuhagoog_tif/pjesmepetrahekt01kuhagoog_0022.tif&scale=4&rotate=0 His major work ''

Fishing and Fishermen's Talk ''Fishing and Fishermen's Talk'' also translated as ''Fishing and Fishermen's Conversations''( hr, Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje) is the most important literary work of Croatian Renaissance poet Petar Hektorović, finished on January 14, 1556, ...

'' (''Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje'', 1568), is a hybrid genre: simultaneously a

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, discourse in fishing, reflexive poem and poetic

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to his friend Jeronim Bartučević. It is a treasure of Croatian maritime and zoological terminology, which has become incorporated in Croatian standard language. As hybrid as his major work, so was Hektorović's language: chiefly based on a local

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dialect, but amalgamated with the idiom of

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writing poets from

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with whom Hektorović has remained in close contact during his lifetime.

Musical versions

The

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Ensemble Renaissance performs and has recorded a setting of his two songs as part of its " Journey through Dalmatia" program.

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1487 births 1572 deaths People from Stari Grad, Croatia 16th-century Croatian poets 16th-century male writers 16th-century Croatian people Republic of Venice poets Venetian Slavs Croatian male poets {{Croatia-writer-stub