Fran Krsto Frankopan
Fran Krsto Frankopan | |
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Born | Bosiljevo, Croatia, Habsburg monarchy (now Croatia) | 4 March 1643
Died | 30 April 1671 Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Habsburg monarchy (now Austria) | (aged 28)
Resting place | Zagreb Cathedral, Croatia |
Occupation | Poet, politician |
Language | Croatian |
Notable works | Elegia Gartlic za čas kratiti |
Fran Krsto Frankopan (
Biography
Early life and poetry
Born in
Living in an area bordering on several
Along with
Peace of Vasvár
Both Frankopan and his brother-in-law
Death
Frankopan and Zrinski were seized by the Royal guard while in Vienna. As a punishment for sedition, they were sentenced to be executed in Wiener Neustadt in 1671.[1]
The deaths of Zrinski and Frankopan caused an outrage among Croatian nobles. Zrinski and Frankopan did not even try to answer the court in Vienna on the terms in which Vienna dealt with them, but rather wished to counteract its injustices with what was then a quite justifiable diplomacy. Viennese officials later recognized that the main reason for the rebellion was the dissatisfaction among Hungarians and Croats prompted by the unfavorable Peace of Vasvár, rather than unprovoked sedition.
The remains of Fran Krsto Frankopan and Petar Zrinski were handed over to the Croatian authorities and buried in the Cathedral of Zagreb in 1919, following World War I.
List of works
From the following list only Elegia was published during Frankopan's lifetime, the rest was found in manuscript following his execution at Wiener Neustadt.[4]
Lyric
- Elegia (1656), written in Latin
- Gartlic za čas kratiti, completed c. 1671
- Various pious poems
- Zganke za vrime kratiti
- Sentencije vsakojaške
Prose
- Trumbita sudnjega dneva
- Preljubljeno zlato i izabranice moga srca
Drama
- Jarne bogati (translation from Moliere)
Legacy
The portraits of Frankopan and Zrinski are depicted on the obverse of the Croatian 5 kuna banknote, issued in 1993 and 2001.[5]
His poems are still popular and are written in a combination of all three Croatian dialects: štokavian, kajkavian and čakavian. This type of writing was also regular for other writers of the Croatian Baroque Ozalj Literary Circle: Ana Katarina Zrinski and Petar IV Zrinski.[6]
Quotes
He who dies honorably lives forever.
— Fran Krsto Frankopan, Conscription
Is it possible, Almighty Creator, that such injustice oppresses your country?
— Fran Krsto Frankopan
See also
- Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy
- MT Frankopan
References
- ^ a b Milorad Živančević (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 127.
- ^ "roen-fran-krsto-frankopan". vijesti.hrt.hr.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-01-12. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Bibliography of Fran Krsto Frankopan at Matica hrvatska
- ^ Croatian National Bank. Features of Kuna Banknotes Archived May 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine: 5 kuna Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine (1993 issue) & 5 kuna Archived 2009-05-06 at the Wayback Machine (2001 issue). – Retrieved on 30 March 2009.
- ^ "Zrinski, Ana Katarina | Hrvatska enciklopedija".
External links
Media related to Fran Krsto Frankopan at Wikimedia Commons
- Poems, in Croatian