Giorgio Sisgoreo

Giorgio Sisgoreo, also known as Juraj Šižgorić^[1] (Latin: Georgius Sisgoreus or Sisgoritus, Croatian: Juraj Šižgorić; ca. 1445–1509) was a Latinist poet from Venetian Dalmatia.

Giorgio Sisgoreo
Tomb of Juraj Šižgorić in the Cathedral of Šibenik
Born	1445
Died	1509
Nationality	Venetian (modern-day Croatia)
Other names	Juraj Šižgorić, Georgius Sisgoreus
Occupation	poet

He was the first humanist from Šibenik and the central personality of Šibenik's humanist circle and also one of the most important figures in 15th-century cultural life of the Croatian people.^[2]

His Elegiarum et carminum libri tres ("Book of elegies and poems", Venice, 1477) is considered the first published book by a Croatian poet. American historian J. V. A. Fine emphasizes that Šižgorić and Vinko Pribojević did not consider themselves to be Croats, but rather Slavic-speaking Venetians.^[3]

References

1. "Šižgorić, Juraj". Croatian Encyclopedia (in Croatian). 2021. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
2. "Enconium to the poet Juraj Šižgorić". National and University Library in Zagreb. 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
3. Fine, John V. A. Jr. (1 January 2006). When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press. p. 255. ISBN 0-472-02560-0. In comparing Šižgorić with Pribojević.... These individuals did not think of themselves as Croats.

Further reading

• Bettarini, Francesco (2018). "Sisgoreo, Giorgio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 92: Semino–Sisto IV (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
• Dukić, Davor: Latinska književnost hrvatskog humanizma, Katedra za stariju hrvatsku književnost Odsjeka za kroatistiku Filozofskog fakulteta u Zagrebu, 2007./2008.
• Leksikon hrvatskih pisaca (ed. D. Fališevac, K. Nemec, D. Novaković), Zagreb 2000.