Petar Hektorović

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Petar Hektorović (1487, Stari Grad, Hvar – March 13, 1572, Stari Grad) was a Croatian writer. He was a poet and collector of Hvar's fishermen songs, and an important figure of the Renaissance period in Croatian literature. His major work "Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje"/Fishing and fishermen discourse, 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: mainly based on local chakavian dialect, but amalgamated with the idiom of štokavian writing poets from Dubrovnik Hektorović has remained in close contact during his lifetime.

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