Marin Držic Statue - Dubrovnik, Croatia
N 42° 38.428 E 018° 06.626
34T E 263099 N 4724938
Marin Držic Statue - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Waymark Code: WMNG5Y
Location: Croatia
Date Posted: 03/10/2015
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This is a one man bronze statue who is sitting on a chair.
Born into a large and well to do family (with 6 sisters and 5 brothers) in Dubrovnik, Držic was trained and ordained as a priest — a calling very unsuitable for his rebel temperament. Marin's uncle was another famous Croatian author Džore Držic. Ordained in 1526, Držic was sent in 1538 to Siena in Tuscany to study the Church Canon Law, where his academic results were average. Thanks to his extroverted and warm personality, he is said to have captured the hearts of his fellow students and professors, and was elected to the position of Rector of the University. Losing interest in his studies, Marin returned to the Dubrovnik Republic in 1543.
Here he became an acquaintance of Austrian adventurer Christoph Rogendorf, then at odds with Vienna court. After a brief sojourn in Vienna, Držic came back to his native city. Other vagabond exploits followed: a connection with a group of Dubrovnik outlaws, a journey to Constantinople and a brief trip to Venice. After a career as an interpreter, scrivener and church musician, he even became a conspirator. Convinced that Dubrovnik was governed by a small circle of elitist aristocracy bent to tyranny, he tried to persuade in five letters (four of which survive) the powerful Medici family in Florence to help him overthrow the government in his home town; they did not respond. Marin died suddenly in Venice on 2 May 1567. He was buried in the Church of St. John and Paul.
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