“Not a single day has passed without his threshold being crossed by a Frenchman, a Spanish man, an Englishman, a Pole, a Greek, an Armenian, an Egyptian, an African or a Jew, always with the increasing desire to peacefully spend time with him”

T. Mrnavić, Speech at Faustus Vrančić’s Funeral, Venice, 1617, Šibenik, 1993, bilingual edition (Croat. transl. by O. Perić)