Giovanni Bona Boliris

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Giovanni Bona-Boliris, born in Cattaro (today Kotor) around 1520 and died aprox. 1572, was a humanist poet who wrote in Latin and Italian. Various of his works were signed under Giovanni Bona, Johannes Bona and Ioannes Bonna.

There is a current dispute whether Giovanni Bona-Boliris belongs to the Croatian, Montenegrin or Italian literature. His works were written in Italian Sonet format and in Latin.

He formed himself as a writer at the university of Padova which he attended in order to study law. The Montenegrin and Croatian historians both claim the poet in their national li however, he was born in Cattaroand mostly wrote about its bithplace. teratures, changing the name to Ivan Bolica or Bunic.

The mentioning of his name first appeared in Croatian anthologies of the Latinists of 1966 and then in the Montenegrin anthology of 1979. The earliest appearance in an Italian anthology can be found in 1555, about four centuries earlier.

The best known work of Giovanni Bona de Boliris is "Descriptio sinus ET urbis Ascriviensis (for D. Ioannem Bonam de Boliris, nobilem Catharensem), composed of 331 Latin verses with which it glorifies the Mouth of Boca di Cattaro (the Bay of Kotor), Kotor itself and the other localities of the famed gulf in the present-day Montenegro. The work was published to Lucca, in Tuscany, in the 1595 from the Dominican ragusan Serafino Rockets in appendix to the own History of Raugia (Ragusa).

Bona de Boliris maintained close relationships with the literary circles in Italy, in particular with the poets re-united around the court of Naples. When G. Streams, in 1551, collected poets for an anthology in honor of Giovanna of Aragon, the beautiful consorte Neapolitan of Ascanio Column, the Bona de Boliris was also invited. His work was present in the volume published to Venice in 1554 with the title it tempio to the divine mrs. Giovanna woman of Aragon, manufactured from all the kindest spirits and in all the main languages of the world.

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He did not imagine sure that four centuries later, Montenegrin and Croatian centuries and means would be come to blows in order to declare it uni the Serbian poet and the other Croatian poet to you. The Croatian essayist Slobodan Prosperov Novak, already president of the Croatian Center of the Pen Club, has written recently in a book of which we will take care ourselves, than “Ivan Bolica (Giovanni Bona de Boliris) remains eternally numbered in the Croatian literary history”.