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Petar Zoranić

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Petar Zoranić
Statue to Petar Zoranić
Born1508
Died1569
NationalityCroatian
OccupationWriter
Notable workPlanine

Petar Zoranić (1508 – before 1569) was a Croatian writer and poet from Zadar. He is most important as the author of Planine, regarded as the first Croatian novel.[1] Pastoral in nature, the novel was written in 1538 and published in 1569. Zoranić wrote two other works, Ljubveni lov and Vilenica, but neither of these has survived.

Biography

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Petar Zoranić was born in 1508,[2] as a descendant of an old noble family Tetačić from Nin, which moved to Zadar at the end of 15th century amidst Ottoman danger. At that time, his mother Elizabeth, was expecting a child. He is first mentioned in 1531, as a notary and judiciary, which probably implies that he previously enrolled as a law student. Because of lack of sources, it is not known in which year he died. He died somewhere between 1548 and 1569.

Works

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  • Ljubveni lov
  • Vilenica
  • Planine (1532.)

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Milorad Živančević (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 589.
  2. ^ "Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek".
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