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Marko Marulić

1450 - 1524

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Marko Marulić Splićanin (pronounced [mâːrko mǎrulitɕ splîtɕanin]; Latin: Marcus Marulus Spalatensis; 18 August 1450 – 5 January 1524), was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist. He is the national poet of Croatia. According to George J. Gutsche, Marulić's epic poem Judita "is the first long poem in Croatian", and "gives Marulić a position in his own literature comparable to Dante in Italian literature." Marulić's Latin poetry is of such high quality that his contemporaries dubbed him "The Christian Virgil." He has been called the "crown of the Croatian medieval age", the "father of the Croatian Renaissance", and "The Father of Croatian literature." Marulić scholar Bratislav Lučin notes that he was well-versed in both the Christian Bible and in the Fathers of the Church. At the same time, Marulić also attentively read the Pre-Christian Greek and Latin Classics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marko Marulić is the 1,050th most popular writer (down from 884th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Croatian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marko Marulić ranks 1,050 out of 7,302. Before him are Bertran de Born, Mary Higgins Clark, James Hadley Chase, John Dryden, Jacques Clément, and Alfred de Vigny. After him are Johannes Tauler, Charles Nodier, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Ernst Toller, Alfred Brehm, and Gottfried von Strassburg.

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Among people born in 1450, Marko Marulić ranks 16. Before him are Pêro da Covilhã, Martin Schongauer, Gerard David, Diogo Dias, Francisco de Almeida, and Zagan Pasha. After him are Veit Stoss, Heinrich Isaac, Sikandar Lodi, Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Gregory III of Constantinople, and Piero Soderini. Among people deceased in 1524, Marko Marulić ranks 8. Before him are Ismail I, Claude of France, Giulia Farnese, Hans Holbein the Elder, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, and Joachim Patinir. After him are Salaì, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, Andrea Solari, Tang Yin, and Johann von Staupitz.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Marko Marulić ranks 39 out of 700. Before him are Zoran Milanović (1966), Franciscus Patricius (1529), Ivan Ribar (1881), Omar Pasha (1806), Margaret of Hungary (1242), and Stjepan Bobek (1923). After him are Tomislav Ivić (1933), Veljko Kadijević (1925), Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Dražan Jerković (1936), Tomislav of Croatia (null), and Felix Weingartner (1863).

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Among WRITERS In Croatia

Among writers born in Croatia, Marko Marulić ranks 3. Before him are Frano Selak (1929), and Miroslav Krleža (1893). After him are Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), Ljudevit Gaj (1809), Matthias Flacius (1520), Ivan Gundulić (1589), Ödön von Horváth (1901), Petar Zrinski (1621), Slavenka Drakulić (1949), Marin Držić (1508), and Antun Vrančić (1504).

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