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Gordana P. Crnković
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Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Washington. Author of Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature.

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Petar Hektorović was a poet and collector of Dalmatian songs, an important figure in the Ragusan (Dubrovnik) Renaissance in South Slavic literature. An aristocratic landowner, Hektorović was impressed by the Italian humanist adaptation of classical forms for vernacular literature. Although he wrote…
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