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 Dubrovnik, Croatia). Illyrian (Slavic) was synonymous with the

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at that time. His Latin-language collection of Illyrian fables, published in Ragusa in 1794, bore the 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 An unpublished collection of his own Slavic poems was titled in Latin: ''Slavica Poematia Latine reddita''.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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's ''Osman''.

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Ferić, Đuro

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