Died 13 August 1804 | ||
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Anica Bošković (1714 in Dubrovnik – 13 August 1804 in Dubrovnik) was a Ragusan writer. She wrote a pastoral song and translated from the Italian language. Educated by Jesuits, Christian themes permeate her work. Hers was one of the first important women's names in Croatian literature. The Dialogue (1758), "was the first and sole literary work written by a female author in the literature of old Dubrovnik".
Bošković was born in Dubrovnik on November 3 or December 3, 1714, the youngest of nine children. Her parents were Paula Bettera, daughter of an Italian wealthy family, and Serbian-born Nikola Bosković, a dealer originally from Orahov Do. Her brother Roger Joseph Boscovich was a notable physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath, and her other brothers, the Latinist Baro Bošković and the poet Petar Bošković, contributed to Croatian culture. Boskovic's contemporaries were Marija Bettera-Dimitrović, Lukrecija Bogašinović, Julije Bunić, Nada Bunić, and Katarina Zrinska.