Petar Hektorović

Petar Hektorović (* 1487 in Stari Grad on Hvar, † March 13, 1572 ) was a poet and polymath of the Renaissance.

Petar Hektorović lingered throughout his life in his home site. He left his native island of Hvar, only one time for a three day trip on a fishing boat. He drove into the bay Supetar about 25 kilometers away in Nečujam on the island of Solta and visited the place where the "father of Croatian literature " Marko Marulić lingered 1510-1512. On the basis of its quasi- ethnographic observations his most important work, Ribanje i Ribarsko was prigovaranje (Eng. "Fisheries and the dialogues of fishermen " ), trying to figure the dialogues of fishermen in their everyday language, but it is also an epic poem. It was completed on January 14, 1566 and printed in 1568 in Venice. In a three -part work he describes in a letter to cousin of his three-day boat ride with the fishermen Paskoje Debelja and Nikola Zet from Hvar. The work is the first realistic, worldly travelogue in the Croatian language, landscape and beauty of nature describes. The Ribanje are one of the earliest records of Croatian folk music.