Đuro Ferić,ĐuroFerić also Giorgio Ferrich, (May 5, 1739 – 1820) was a poet and a Jesuit vicar general of the Republic of Ragusa.

As a poet, he belonged to the Illyrian circle in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia). Illyrian (Slavic) was synonymous with the Croatian language at that time. His Latin-language collection of Illyrian fables, published in Ragusa in 1794, bore the title Fabulae ab Illyricis adagiis disumptae, and a second similar text, existing only in manuscript, was titled: Adagia illirycae linguae fabulis explicata. An unpublished collection of his own Slavic poems was titled in Latin: Slavica Poematia Latine reddita.

Đuro Ferić

In the second decade of the 19th century he published in Ragusa two further works in Croatian (Slovinski). Ferić put together a collection of short poems in praise of those Ragusan poets who wrote in the Illyrian language, such as Dominko Zlatarić's translation of Sophocles and Ivan Gundulić's Osman.

Đuro Ferić

See also

Republic of Ragusa

Sources

Ferić, Đuro

External links

Giorgio Ferrich

Croatian Jesuits

People from Dubrovnik

1739 births

1820 deaths

18th-century Croatian people

19th-century Croatian people

18th-century Roman Catholics

19th-century Roman Catholics

Ragusan Jesuits

18th-century writers in Latin

Đuro Ferić