MAVRO VETRANOVIC'S RELIGIOUS LYRIC POETRY

Religious lyric poetry is a wide-spread and important element of the renaissance literary culture. This is testified by a three-volume anthology Rime sacre (Venice, 1550-1552). The anthology encompasses poets such as Gerolamo Malipiero, Jacopo Sannazaro, Pietro Bembo, Giovanni Guidiccioni, Vittoria Colonna, Pietro Aretino, Bernardo Tasso, Luigi Almanni, Agostino Caccia, Benedetto Varchi, Giraldi Cinzio, Lodovico Dolce, Alessandro Piccolomini, Tullia d'Argona and many others. In addition to Italy, religious poetry has been wide-spread in many other European countries, such as Spain, England, Germany, France and Croatia. Almost all well-known and canonized Croatian renaissance poets wrote religious lyrics in Croatian language. Still, the same can be said for less known poets as well, such as Marko Marulic from Split, Franjo Bozicevic, Frane Bogavcic, Nikola Matulic, Jerolim Martincic, Dominiko Armanov and Sime Budinic from Zadar, Petar Lucic from Trogir,