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Antun Vrančić

Antun Vrančić, Croatian church prelate, diplomat and writer (Šibenik, May 29 1504 – Prešov, Slovakia, June 15 1573). As a young man he went to Hungary, where bishop Petar Berislavić, …

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Mihovil Vrančić (Šibenik, ? 17 February 1507 – Šibenik, ? 3 January 1570)

Mihovil Vrančić, Croatian diplomat, poet and historian (Šibenik, 17 February 1507 – Šibenik, 3 January 1570). Brother of Antun Vrančić and father of Faust Vrančić. In 1591 he published a …

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Using script against undesirable readers III: Vrančić’s encoding tools / Milenko Lončar ; Diana Sorić

“Among Antun Vrančić’s manuscripts in the Széchényi National Library in Budapest there are five coding manuals, each on a separate sheet of paper. These are the four official documents assigned …

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More about Vrančić ‘s names of months of the year / Sanja Vulić

  “It is well known that Vrančić’s works in Croatian, the famous Dictionarivm of qvinqve nobilissimarvm Evropae lingvari, Latinae, Italicae, Germanicae, Dalmatiae et Vngaricae from 1595, and the hagiographic work …

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The question of the birth date of Croatian humanist and Hungarian primas Antun Vrančić (1504 – 1573) / Diana Sorić

“Based on the findings obtained by analyzing Vrančić’s correspondence, as well as an insight into unpublished archival material and critical review of the data in the professional literature, the paper …

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Antun Vrančić, Historiographic fragments, translated by Šime Demo, introductory study and notes prepared by Castilia Manea-Grgin, City library of Juraj Šižgorić, Šibenik 2014, 323 p. / Iva Kurelac

“By publishing Historiographic fragments by Antun Vrančić, the City library of Juraj Šižgorić from Šibenik presents a valuable testimony to the historiographic work of this famous humanist and church prelate …

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Faust Vrančić and his contribution to the development of technical thinking / Marijana Borić

“In a series of prominent Croatian thinkers who have contributed significantly to the development of Western European science, a special place helds Faust Vrančić (Šibenik 1551 – Venice 1617). During …

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Politics and literature in elegies written by Mihovil Vrančić in 1528 / György Palotás

“The literary and historical study of the humanistic circle around Ivan Zapolja (1487-1540) and, after his death, around Izabela Jagelović (1519-1559) is often ignored in Hungarian and international horizons due …

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Lupus in elegia. About the literary context of Michael Verancius’ Querelae / Péter Kasza

“In about 1528, Michael Verancius wrote two quite long elegies entitled Querela Hungariae de Austria and Alia querela Hungariae contra Austriam. What makes these poems interesting is that these are …

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“The Scythian–Sarmatian Wedding” and the Epithalamion of Michael Verancius (1539). / György Palotás

“On 2 March 1539 the Hungarian king János Szapolyai (1487–1540) married Princess Isabella Jagiełło of Poland (1519–1559). A number of wedding poems (epithalamia) were written for this event, by poets …

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Using script against undesirable readers II: a coded message of Antun Vrančić / Milenko Lončar

“Brothers Antun and Mihovil Vrančić occasionally used coded messages in their correspondence. Thanks to the research of D. Sorić and the author of the present work, Mihovil’s codes were recently …

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Family correspondents of Antun Vrančić (1504 – 1573): Biographical data and the location of manuscripts

“Based on the relevant literature and archival material, this paper gathers the biographical knowledge of the ten members of the family with whom the Croatian humanist and primas of Hungary …

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Using Script Against Undesirable Readers: The Coded Messages of Mihovil and Antun Vrančić / Milenko Lončar ; Diana Sorić

“During the period of their correspondance, the brothers Mihovil and Antun Vrančić would occasionaly write messages in code [1] : Antun in a letter written while on a diplomatic mission …

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Croatian dictionary of the Vrančić’s dictionary and his prose / Josip Lisac

“Faust Vrančić is the author of two books with a significant portio of the Croatian language. This can be seen in his famous dictionary, and dominates in his lesser-known prose, …

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Faust Vrančić’s testament from the legacy of the noble Dragičić-Vrančić family in the State Archive of Rijeka / Iva Kurelac

“The unpublished testament of the famous humanist and church prelate Faust Vrančić coming from Šibenik was made on June 12, 1615 and donated to the State Archive of Rijeka as …

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Faust Vrančić and division of items from Antun Vrančić’s Legacy in Šibenik in 1576 and 1579

“Along with shorter remarks on the circumstances in which they were made and the way they came to the present location, in the Archive of the Croatian Academy of Sciences …

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415 years of Vrančić’s Dictionary

“Although the attempts to record some of the words of the Croatian language had already been known, in the narrow sense we can talk about Croatian lexicography only from the …

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Two short volumes of poems from the 16th century, supposedly written by Mihovil Vrančić from Šibenik/ Amir Kapetanović

“This paper describes two short volumes of poems which, in 1925, Franjo Fancev connected to a respectable member of a well-known family from Šibenik, Mihovil Vrančić, and the city of …

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Classification of the Letters of Antun Vrančić / Diana Sorić

“Epistular communication as an exchange of thoughts, ideas, intimate confessions, political appeals, or dedication prefaces – epistles affirmed in a special way in the period of humanism as a Pan-European …

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Dinko Zavorović, Faust Vrančić and Toma Suričević in the light of epistolar exchange / Iva Kurelac

“For the purpose of scientific analysis of epistolographic communication among prominent Croatian humanists, three epistles have been analyzed from the beginning of the unpublished work entitled De Rebus Dalmaticis written …

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Illyrica historia by Faust Vrančić / Iva Kurelac 

“This paper addresses the manuscript of Illyrica historia written by Croatian humanist Faust Vrančić. A description of the manuscript is given along with an analysis of the representation of individual …

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Faust Vrančić, 450th birth anniversary / Ivka Kljajić ; Miljenko Lapaine

“Faust VRANČIĆ (Faustus Verantius), a polyhistor, a constructor, a writer and a lexicographer, was born in 1551 in Šibenik, and died in Venice in 1617. In Požun, he obtained the …

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Aonio Paleario and Antun Vrančić / Leo Košuta

“The theme of this conference “humanists-Protestants” can be understood in the wider meaning of this coinage as the theme of those humanists who, as lovers of the classical antiquity, supported …

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Faust Vrančić and Aristotelism in logic / Srećko Kovač

“The article addresses the relationship between the ‘new logic’ of Faust Vrančić (1551 – 1617) and Renaissance Aristotelian logic. This problem is examined in the first place by exploring the …

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Logic by Faust Vrančić / Srećko Kovač

“Among the works of F. Vrančić (1551 – 1617), we find two short writings addressing philosophical disciplines of logic and ethics. In 1608 the work entitled Logica suis ipsius instrumental …

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Unknown editions of “Logic and ethics” by Faust Vrančić / Šime Jurić

“Literary work by Faust Vrančić from Šibenik (1551 – 1617) is remarkably polyhistoric showing all the features of such writing. Vrančić’s multifaceted interest in various scientific fields certainly comes from …

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Antun Vrančić – on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death

“Antun Vrančić was born in Šibenik on May 29, 1504. He studied in Padua, Vienna and Cracow. His diplomatic career began when he was appointed the secretary of Ivan Zapolja. …

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