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Nationality
  
Croatian

Name
  
Petar Hektorovic

Role
  
Writer


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Other names
  
Pietro EttoreoPiero Hettoreo

Occupation
  
poet and collector of Hvar\'s fishermen songs

Notable work
  
Fishing and Fishermen’s Talk

Died
  
March 13, 1572, Stari Grad, Croatia

Books
  
Fishing and Fishermen\'s Talk, Fishing and fishermen\'s conversations by Petar Hektorovic

Petar hektorovi


Petar Hektorović (1487 – March 13, 1572) was a Croatian writer.

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Petar Hektorović Hektorovi fortress

Hektorović, also known as Pietro Ettoreo or Piero Hettoreo, was born and died in Stari Grad, Hvar. He was a poet and collector of Hvar's fishermen songs, and an important figure of the Renaissance period in Croatian literature, and he also wrote in Latin and in Italian, language in which he wrote his testament. His major work Fishing and Fishermen’s Talk (Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje, 1568), is a hybrid genre: simultaneously a travelogue, discourse in fishing, reflexive poem and poetic epistle to his friend Jeronim Bartučević. It is a treasure of Croatian maritime and zoological terminology, which has become incorporated in Croatian standard language. As hybrid as his major work, so was Hektorović's language: chiefly based on a local Čakavian dialect, but amalgamated with the idiom of Štokavian writing poets from Dubrovnik with whom Hektorović has remained in close contact during his lifetime.

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Musical versions

Petar Hektorović On Fishing and Fishermen39s Tales Go Hvar

The early music Ensemble Renaissance performs and has recorded a setting of his two songs as part of its "Journey through Dalmatia" program.

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Petar Hektorović Petar Hektorovi YouTube

Petar Hektorović Departure of ferry PETAR HEKTOROVI in Split YouTube

Petar Hektorović MT Petar Hektorovi Wikipedija

References

Petar Hektorović Wikipedia


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