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Croatian poet and playwright
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Džore Držić (Croatian pronunciation: [dʒǒːre dř̩ːʒitɕ]; Italian: Giorgio Darsa) (February 6, 1461 – September 26, 1501) was a Ragusan poet and playwright, one of the fathers of Croatian literature.

He was a citizen of the Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia). He was the uncle of the noted Croatian playwright Marin Držić, the rector of the Church of All Saints, the chancellor of the Dubrovnik chapter, a contemporary of the poet Marko Marulić, and created a poetic opus that became a primal expression of the linguistic form that would become the official Croatian language.

Držić's Pjesni ljuvene (Love Poems) were posthumously included by Nikša Ranjina in his manuscript collection which also contained love poems composed by other young citizens of Dubrovnik for their ladies.

Some of his poems went beyond the conventional rhetorical style of Petrarchist poetry. Their verses, reminiscent of folk songs, are in the Ranjina's Miscellany. They include the poem Odiljam se (I Am Going Away), in verses of sixteen syllables, with a hint of bugarštica.

His eclogue Radmio and Ljubmir [hr], found only recently, was written in the late 15th century. It is the first Croatian play with a secular theme, opening a new period of the Croatian theater.

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  1. Kadić, Ante (2019). From Croatian renaissance to Yugoslav socialism: Essays. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 21. ISBN 9783111393964.
  2. Živojin Boškov (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 106.

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