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Elio Lampridio Cerva (Croatian: Ilija Crijević, Latin: Aelius Lampridius Cervinus) was a Ragusan poet, born in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) c.1460. The life of Cerva, one of the poets more scholars of its time, was stormy and restless, marked from the strong intolerance in the comparisons of the impure contacts and the barbaric ways from which it was encircled. Feeling maternal more the Latin who the Slav language, lived all the life in one violent contrast with “Red” environs. Its torment associate-linguistic, found vent in its elegie like regret of the times in which to Ragusa not speak other language that that Latin, or like augury not to feel more the echo than that one illiric, “scittica language that infects”. Its nature the intense book of martyrs and the opinion of some critics taken to moreover shape in the burning backs (second us, the best ones that it has written), of more or less explicit tone, the erotic elegie of the circle roman Flavia dedicated her, but also to the ragusan lady of the Bona family. The intolerance of its nature towards whichever type of oppression, but that in backs, it left the sign also in official actions of the common one: it had in fact a crash. Of he we know moreover that to 13 years it went to Rome, to the continuation of the uncle Stefano, ambassador of the pope Sisto IV: here it made life goliardic, it woke up its poetic talent that made it to receive in the circle of Pomponio Leto, and the crown of bay deserved it. It studied them the dramaturg ancient and spread one study on the commedie of Plauto. It is of this period Lexicon (1480), enciclopedic dictionary in Latin, of 429 pages and in great format (33 x 23 cm). To the return to Ragusa “creature of Rome”, in years '90, began to work to school, and like its predecesor, it was megaphone of the Republic of Ragusa. Finally, perhaps pushed from the circumstances in which it lived, decided to withdraw itself in bewitched island of Ombla, where it remained until 1521, year in which scomparve. Although the poet title it, than came attributed to it in communal documents, Cerva during the life published only four short component. Its main work, De Epidauro is remained: draft of a epic poem, whose subject is the Turkish invasions of the ragusan territory.
In two codes of the library Vatican instead Latin poetries of varied argument - familiar, religious and loving are collections - with live us callbacks are to the other witnesses of the time that to its rovente nature (in some as an example it describes which you onslaught rinascimentali, violences lovings who did not have completely to be strangers). However, the works of one of the greatest ragusan, whose literary work by far exceeds that one of its contemporaries and concittadini, today come more abroad published that in Croatia.
