Vladislav Menčetić or Minčetić (~1617 1666) was a

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n poet and politician from the

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. He was schooled in Dubrovnik, and later served as a military commander in

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on multiple occasions from 1656 to 1658. In 1637, he saw the zenith of his political career when he entered the Great Council of the Republic of Ragusa. Since 1639, he also served as a lawyer. Writing during the

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period, he was a part of the Ragusan nobility which opposed the idea of the

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having supremacy over Dubrovnik. By the end of the Candian war, he assessed such political bond could be severed. This was also reflected in his writing, such as his work ''Trublja slovinska'' (The Trumpet of the Slavs), published in

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in 1665. The work was dedicated to the

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, whom he highly elevated in his poetic vision, even to the point of ascribing the future liberation of

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to him.

Works

* ''Trublja slovinska'' * ''Tužba Radmilova cijeć Zorke vile'' * ''Radonja'' * ''Knjiga g. Marojice Kaboge''

References

External links

Hrvatski plus - Zagrebačka slavistička škola
Davor Dukić: Osmanizam u hrvatskoj književnosti od 15. do sredine 19. stoljeća *Marko Dragić
Književnost katoličke obnove i prvoga prosvjetiteljstva (hrvatska barokna književnost)
fakultetski priručnik, Split, 2006., {{DEFAULTSORT:Menčetić, Vladislav 17th-century Croatian poets 1610s births 1666 deaths Croatian male poets People from Dubrovnik Croatian Baroque writers 17th-century male writers