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Marvo Vetranovic (1482-1576)
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Mavro Vetranović (1482–1576) A prolific and profound if somewhat uneven writer from Dubrovnik, Vetranović, a Benedictine monk, worked in many genres, all with a profoundly religious cast to them. As the Turks made rapid advances into Central Europe in his lifetime, and impinged increasingly on the beleaguered cities of the Dalmatian coast, he used his writings to call attention to the Croatians’ plight. The following poem is from: Thomas Butler, ed. and trans., Monumenta Serbocroatica: A Bilingual Anthology of Serbian and Croatian Texts from the 12th to the 19th Century (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1980): 193. An Anthology of Croatian Literature 26 A Song in Support of Poets Potters are given potter’s clay when they fix pots, so they can put on handles, as many as they wish; and the painter above all has freedom and prerogative not to spare a single color, to paint everything as he wishes. And to the poets’ lot has fallen to heed their muse, to sing songs at will, in freedom as they wish. ...