Anica Bošković (born 1714 in

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 = ...

– died 13 August 1804 in Ragusa) was a

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writer. She wrote a pastoral song and translated from the Italian language. Christian themes permeate her work. Hers was one of the first important women's names in Ragusan literature. Her work, ''The Dialogue'' (1758), was the first and sole literary work written by a female author in the literature of Ragusa. She was born in

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-- to Nikola Bošković, a Ragusan merchant, originally from

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near

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(at the time part of the

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, now

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), and Paola Bettera (1674–1777), scion of a wealthy family -- on either November 3 or December 3, 1714, the youngest of nine children. One of her brothers,

Roger Joseph Boscovich Roger Joseph Boscovich ( hr, Ruđer Josip Bošković; ; it, Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich; la, Rogerius (Iosephus) Boscovicius; sr, Руђер Јосип Бошковић; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, ...

, was a notable

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, and a

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,Biography: Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J.
Fairchild University website. and two other brothers, the Latinist Baro Bošković and the poet Petar Bošković, contributed to Ragusan culture. Her contemporaries included Lukrecija Bogašinović and

Dositej Obradović Dositej Obradović ( sr-Cyrl, Доситеј Обрадовић; 17 February 1739 – 7 April 1811) was a Serbian writer, biographer, diarist, philosopher, pedagogue, educational reformer, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education ...

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*Ante Kadić: Otkriće Amerike u hrvatskoj književnosti, Hrvatska revija br. 42/1992. *Ante Kadić: Ruđer J. Bošković : njegov književni i duhovni lik : prigodom 200-godišnjice njegove smrti, Hrvatska revija br. 37/1987. *Nevenka Nekić: Skica za portret Ruđera Boškovića, Hrvatska revija br. 49/1999. *Mirko Kratofil: Historiografija o Dubrovniku u 1999. godini., Hrvatska revija br. 50/2000. *Zbornik stihova i proze 18. stoljeća. "PSHK", knj. 19, prir. R. Bogišić, Zagreb 1973. (Mateša Antun Kuhačević; Vid Došen; Antun Ivanošić; Đuro Hidža; Marko Bruerović; Anica Bošković) *Sebastijan Slade, Fasti litterario-Ragusini, Dubrovačka književna kronika, Hrvatski institut za povijest, (Biblioteka Hrvatska povjesnica. Posebna izdanja), Zagreb, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Boskovic, Anica 1714 births 1804 deaths 18th-century Croatian poets 18th-century Croatian women writers Croatian women writers People from Dubrovnik Croatian women poets Ragusan poets