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See also:IVAN See also:GUNDULICH (1588-1638)
, known also as Giovanni Gondola, Servian poet, was See also:born at See also:Ragusa on the 8th of See also:January 1588
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His See also:father, Franco See also:Gundulich, once the Ragusan See also:envoy to See also:Constantinople and councillor of' the See also:republic, gave him an excellent See also:education
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He studied the " humanities " with the Jesuit, Father Muzzi, and See also:philosophy with Father See also:Ricasoli
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After that he studied See also:Roman See also:law and See also:jurisprudence in See also:general
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He was member of the See also:Lower See also:Council and once served as the
1 See also:Air-dried See also:guncotton will contain 2 % , or less of moisture.See also:chief See also:magistrate of the republic
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He died on the 8th of See also:December 1638
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A born poet, he admired much the See also:Italian poets of his See also:time, from whom he made many See also:translations into Servian
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It is believed that he so translated See also:Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata
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He is known to have written eighteen See also:works, of which eleven were dramas, but of these only three have been fully preserved. others having perished during the See also:great See also:earthquake and See also:fire in 1667
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Most of those dramas were translations from the Italian, and were played, seemingly with great success, by the amateurs furnished by the See also:noble families of Ragusa
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But his greatest and justly celebrated See also:work is an epic, entitled See also:Osman, in twenty cantos
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It is the first See also:political epic on the Eastern Question, glorifying the victory of the Poles over See also:Turks and See also:Tatars in the See also:campaign of 1621, and encouraging a See also:league of the See also:Christian nations, under the guidance of Vladislaus, the See also: The fourteenth and fifteenth cantos are lost . It is generally believed that the Ragusan See also:government suppressed them from See also:consideration for the See also:Sultan, the See also:protector of the republic, those two cantos having been violently See also:anti-See also:Turkish . Osman was printed for the first time in Ragusa in 1826, the two missing cantos being replaced by songs written by Pietro Sorgo (or Sorkochevich) . From this edition the learned Italian, See also:Francesco See also:Appendini, made an Italian See also:translation published in 1827 . Since that time several other See also:editions have been made . The best are considered to be the edition of the See also:South See also:Slavonic See also:Academy in See also:Agram (1877) and the edition published in See also:Semlin (1889) by See also:Professor Yovan Boshkovich . In the edition of 1844 (Agram) the last cantos, fourteen and fifteen, were replaced by very See also:fine compositions of the Serbo-Croatian poet, Mazhuranich (Mazuranic) . The See also:complete works of Gundulich have been published in Agram, 1847, by V . Babukich and by the South Slavonic Academy of Agram in 1889 . (C . M1.) GUNG'L, JOSEF (1810-1889), Hungarian composer and conductor, was born on the 1st of December 181o, at Zsambek, in See also:Hungary . After starting See also:life as a school-teacher, and learning the elements of See also:music from Ofen, the school-choirmaster, he became first oboist at See also:Graz, and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th See also:regiment of See also:Austrian See also:artillery .
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