Andrija Kačić Miošić (; 17 April 1704 – 14 December 1760) was a Croatian poet and

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friar, as well as a descendant of the Kačić noble family, one of the oldest and most influential Croatian noble families.

Biography

Born in Brist near

Makarska Makarska () is a town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split (city), Split and northwest of Dubrovnik, in the Split-Dalmatia County. Makarska is a prominent regional tourist center, located on a horseshoe-shaped bay bet ...

, he became a Franciscan friar. He was educated at Zaostrog monastery and

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. He taught philosophy at Zaostrog and in Sumartin on

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, which were basis for the tragedy ''Skenderbeg'' written by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski in the 19th century. They were also basis for ''Život i viteška voevanja slavnog kneza epirskog Đorđa Kastriota Skenderbega'' written by Jovan Sterija Popović in 1828. Makarska-bs-004

Using the ten-syllable verse of folk poetry and relying on Mavro Orbini and Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Kačić Miošić narrates and sings about the history of the

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from the antiquity to his age. He, like Ivan Gundulić, describes the Slavic peoples from the Adriatic to the

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as one people. The book exalts many heroes from the famous Croatian families of the age of the Ottoman wars. His most important work also contained a lot of references and praise for the Bosnian nation and its historical events. Since the book includes some important folk poems, many readers considered it a folk songbook. ''Pleasant Conversation'' is mostly

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in tone and of little artistic value, but later served as a valuable source of historic data and gave inspiration for future Croatian writers. His other works are a philosophical study in

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and a chronicle called ''Korabljica'' (1760), where he used passages from other writers, including Vitezović.

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