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Zlatarić Dominko
(1558—1613)

Dominko Zlatarić is the representative of the last generation of poets who have continued their work in Croatian poetry based on the obsolescent principles of the Renaissance, those who have introduced certain elements of mannerism into their composition, themes and style. Zlatarić was born in 1558 in a wealthy burgeois family in Dubrovnik, at the time when Marin Držić already reached the height of his comediographic achievement. He studied philosophy and medicine in Padua. His literary success was particulary marked in 1597 in Venice, when he published three of his poetic translations in one book. The three translations refer to the above mentioned «Aminta», and also «Tragedy of Electra» and «Death of Pyramus and Thisbe», with titles in the dialectal form of Croatian as it was used in Dubrovnik at that time. He also added some poems on death taken from foreign language literature. His son Miho edited and published his father's 137 poems some time after his father's death, some of them showing certain features of mannerism. All known works of Zlatarić have been published in the Academy edition Stari pisci hrvatski, Book XXI, referred to as The Works of Dominko Zlatarić, prepared for publishing by P. Budmani.

Croatia, 1997, «Electra» by Sophocles