The Republic of Ragusa: An Episode of the Turkish Conquest

Letter xliii. p. 344.

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[504] Gelcich, p. 42.

[505] _Ibid._

[506] _Reform._, ii., Oct. 3, 1349.

[507] De Diversis, ed. Brunelli, p. 39.

[508] Curzola has always been famous for its building stone, which is almost a marble, and acquires a rich yellow patina with age.

[509] Ragusavecchia.

[510] De Diversis, as quoted by Graham Jackson, who had seen the MS. in the Franciscan library at Ragusa, containing passages not in Brunelli.

[511] Jackson, ii. 332, note.

[512] Jackson, ii. 336.

[513] Anonymous account of Ragusa, quoted by Gelcich, p. 76.

[514] T. G. Jackson, ii. p. 380.

[515] _Ibid._

[516] De Diversis, ed. Brunelli, p. 42.

[517] Gelcich, p. 80.

[518] T. G. Jackson, ii. 394.

[519] _Ibid._, ii. 295.

[520] Those of Stagno Grande have for the most part been pulled down.

[521] Eitelberger von Edelberg, _op. cit._, iv. 357.

[522] In the Herzegovina.

[523] _Op. cit._, iv. 317.

[524] For a more detailed description, see Graham Jackson, vol ii. p. 354.

[525] _Ibid._, ii. p. 356.

[526] Puipin und Spasowicz, _Geschichte der Slawischen Literatur_, vol. ii. p. 224.

[527] Puipin und Spasowicz, _ibid._

[528] This, as well as the Slavonic works of other Ragusans, is published at Agram in the collection called _Stari Pisci Hrvatski_ (Old Croatian writers).

[529] In this, as in other works by Ragusans, no animus against the Turk is displayed. He was regarded by the Ragusans as a law of nature rather than as an enemy, and a wholesome fear made them careful to avoid doing or even saying anything to offend him.

[530] Published at Venice in 1599.

[531] Venice, 1547, 1550.

[532] _Ibid._, 1550.

[533] Several editions of the _Osman_ have been published, and Appendini translated it into Italian.

[534] Also spelt Boscovich.

[535] Pisani, _La Dalmatie de 1797 à 1815_, pp. 33 _sqq._

[536] _Ibid._, pp. 125-126.

[537] R. P. Pregadi, July; Pisani, _ibid._

[538] Pisani, _ibid._, pp. 135-136.

[539] Pisani, _passim_.

[540] Timoni’s despatches to the Austrian Chancery, quoted by Pisani, _ibid._, pp. 299-300.

[541] _I.e_. “beg” and “request,” rather than “must” and “shall.”

[542] Pisani, pp. 457-58.

[543] Pisani, _passim_.

INDEX

Adrianople, 170, 271

Adriatic, navigation in, 54; pirates in, 190

Advocatus Comunis, 85

Æsculapius capital, 341-4

Albania, 59-60, 166; under Servian rule, 137; Venetians in, 163; Turks in, 259

Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 35-6

Altomanović, Nicholas, 165, 167, 175-6

Antium, Cape, battle of, 180

Antivari, 136-8, 140; church of, 73; trade with, 73

Apulia, 118, 246-7; pirates of, 123

Archbishops of Ragusa, Venetian, 39

Aristocracy, 298, 317, 333-7, 411-16

Arrengerius, Archbishop of Ragusa, 73

Art at Ragusa, 149 _sq._, 339 _sq._

Austria, Ragusan tribute to, 327

Austrian wars with Turkey, 321-4; schemes on Ragusa, 383

Austrians in Dalmatia, 382 _sq._, 403 _sq._; occupy Ragusa, 411

Avars destroy Salona and Epidaurum, 16

Balša, George, 177, 179; Balša III., 202-4, 210; Constantine Balša, 190

Barbarossa, Haireddin, 8, 281-4

Barbary corsairs, 281, 283; States, 324

Basil II., Emperor of the East, 61

Bayazet I., 187, 191; II., 255, 258

Bela II., King of Hungary, 37; IV., 110

Belgrad, 136, 225, 237, 261, 266, 324

Benedict XII., Pope, 113

Benessa, Piro, 63-4

Bergato, 107, 130; battle of, 394-5

Bobali, Michele, 47, 63; Vito, 63

Bobovac, 102, 200, 201, 241

Bodazza, Lorenzo and Simone, 195

Bodino, legend of, 46-7, 61

Bogomilism, 53, 108, 111, 168, 223, 230

Bojana, river, 116, 118, 137

Bona, Giovanni, 373; Marquis, 404, 407; Niccolò, 319, 320; Serafino, 245

Bosdari, Mayor of Ragusa, 415; Michele, 301

Boskovic, Ruggiero, 329, 381

Bosnia, 59, 60, 102-3, 167-8, 193, 219-223, 227-8, 238-43, 248, 251-2, 261-2

Bosnia, bishopric of, 110; envoys to, 320; Pashas of, 281, 296

Bosnian colony near Ragusa, 18, 19

Branivoj, 95-8

Bratutti, Niccolò, 373

Brazza, 199, 205-9

British fleet, operations of, 401 _sq._

Brskovo, 141, 143

Bruère, French Consul, 387-8, 399

Bucchia brothers, 97; Giorgio, 319-21

Budua, 176-7

Caboga, Biagio, 301; Count Biagio Bernard, 392, 399, 400, 404; Marino, 319-21

Calvino, Crisostomo, Archbishop of Ragusa, 292-3

Canalesi, 404, 407

Canali, 12, 15, 206; revolt in, 385-6

Candia, war of, 296, 318

Candiano, Pietro I., Doge of Venice, 27; III., Doge of Venice, 27

Castelnuovo, 184, 281-3, 322

Castello of Ragusa, 151, 160, 340-41

Cathedral of Ragusa, 151-3; Treasury, 301-2, 367-8

Cattaro, 59, 91-2, 99, 124, 140, 168, 175, 177, 180, 181, 204, 211; Bocche di, 59, 322; Three Martyrs of, 114

Cernomen, battle of, 170-1

Charles V., 286-8, 307-8

Chioggia war, 180-82

Christian fleet, 228; Leagues, 280, 286; prisoners, 285, 292

Church, Eastern and Western, 222

Citizens, classes of, 335-6

Clissa, 185, 281, 293

Coinage of Ragusa, 145, 192

Constantine Palæologus, Emperor, 264

Constantinople captured by Crusaders, 50; captured by Turks, 235; Ragusans at, 116, 118, 151; routes to, 266 _sq._

Constitution of Ragusa, 79, 87-8, 330

Counts of Ragusa, Venetian, 24, 70, 71

Crnoević, Radić, 191

Croatia, 262, 401

Cubranović, Andrija, 375

Čulin, Banus of Bosnia, 53, 61, 110, 111

Curzola, 7, 199, 205-9, 402; battle of, 91

Dabiša, King of Bosnia, 193

D’Ajala, 333, 383, 386, 389-90, 409

Dalmatia, geographical position, 1; conquered by the Romans, 8; by Odovakar, 9; theme of, 9, 10; conquered by Venice, 32-4; Imperial authority revives in, 34; conquered by Hungary, 163 _sq._; reconquered by Venice, 211-12; invaded by the Turks, 281-2; the French in, 390 _sq._

Dance, church of, 351; paintings in, 361

Dandolo, Enrico, Doge of Venice, 50; Giovanni, Count of Ragusa, 62; Provveditore of Dalmatia, 401

Delgorgue, General, 394-5

Delort, Colonel, 399, 400

Demetrius Palæologus, Despot of the Morea, 265

Dessa, Prince of the Serbs, 37

Diplomacy, Ragusan, 88-9, 288, 291

Dobroslav, Prince of the Serbs, 34

Doclea, 62, 166; archbishopric of, 51

Dominican monastery at Ragusa, 156-7, 304; paintings in, 363-4; at Mezzo, 358

Dominicans at Ragusa, 113; in Bosnia, 112

Držić, Gjore, 373; Marino, 375

Dubrovnik, 18; _See also_ Ragusa

Dulcigno, 136, 138

Durazzo, 7, 10, 118, 163, 166, 248

Dušan, Stephen, Tsar of the Serbs, 60, 96-8

Dutch in the Mediterranean, 314-15

Earthquakes at Ragusa, 260, 298-305

Elizabeth, widow of Louis of Hungary, 167, 183

England, trade with, 264; incident with, 329

English colony at Ragusa, 275

Epidaurum, 7, 15

Eugene IV., Pope, 228; of Savoy, 324

Fano, treaty with, 55

Ferdinand, Emperor of Germany, 293

Ferrara war, 257-8

Florence, connection with, 118, 272-3

Foča, 133, 267

Fonton, Russian consul, 388-93

Forte Molo, 357; San Giovanni, 291; Imperiale, 408, 410

Fortifications of Ragusa, 291

Forty Martyrs, feast of, 215-16

Franciscan monastery at Ragusa, 153-6, 304; at Mezzo, 359; at Stagno, 360

Franciscans at Ragusa, 113

French occupy Ragusa, 392; their rule in Ragusa, 396, 401

French party at Ragusa, 387-8, 398

French Revolutionary wars, 333 _sq._

Galliani, Archbishop of Ragusa, 327

Garagnin, G. D., 401

George Branković, Despot of Servia, 226-7

Gervase, Count of Ragusa, 47-8

Ghetaldi, Marino, 380; Rector of Ragusa, 298

Giordani, Onofrio, 341-8, 352-3

Giorgi, Colonel, 408; Damiano, 229; Marsilio, Count of Ragusa, 73; Matteo, 181

Giuda, Damiano, 63-4

Giuppana, 107, 120

Giustiniani, Marco, Count of Ragusa, 70

Gondola, Francesco, 286-8; Francesco Giuseppe, 331; Giacomo, 198; Giovanni, _see_ Gundulić

Gozze, Giovanni, 372-3; Marino, 221, 319-21; Niccolò, 195-6; Raphael, 322

Grado, Patriarchate of, 39, 67

Grand Council, 82, 85

Gravosa, 107, 120, 273, 303, 357-8, 408

Gregory VII., Pope, on Dalmatian Church, 51

Grgurić, 409, 410

Grimani, Patriarch of Venice, 282

Gropa, Lord of Ochrida, 166

Gundulić, Ivan, 376-80

Heraclius, Emperor, 21

Herzegovina, 191, 234-5, 242, 255-6; Sandjakbegs of, 281, 284

Hlum, 12, 61-2, 94-5, 135, 166-7, 174-5

Hoste, Sir William, 402-4, 407-8

Hrvoje, Duke of Spalato, 193, 197-201

Hungary, connection of Dalmatia and Ragusa with, 35, 105, 163, 173, 251-2, 256, 261-2; civil wars in, 183; conquered by Austria, 321-4

Hunyadi, John, 227, 229, 230

Isak Beg, 219, 223-4, 226, 238

Jajce, 240, 242, 261-2

John, Archbishop of Ragusa, 73

John Zapolya, King of Hungary, 262

Kara Mustafa, 318-21

Kiriko, 398, 399

Kljuć, 130, 242

Kosača, Stephen, Duke of St. Sava, 224-5

Kossovo, 139; first battle of, 186; second battle of, 229

Kotromanic, Stephen, Banus of Bosnia, 61

Kreševo, 143; Diet of, 228

Kroia, 230, 246, 248, 254

Lacroma, 54, 286

Ladislas, King of Hungary, 35, 227-9; Posthumus, King of Hungary, 229; Ladislas II., King of Hungary, 258; of Naples, 198

Lagosta, island of, 30, 31, 87, 107, 294

Latin Empire of the East, 50; colonials at Ragusa, 80; poets at Ragusa, 372-3

Laudo Populi, 24-5, 79

Lazar, Knez, 165, 186

Leopold I., Emperor of Austria, 321-3

Lesina, island of, 7, 199, 205-9, 403

Levant, Spanish expedition to, 308-11

Louis, King of Hungary, 103-4, 163, 168

Lowen, Captain, 402, 404, 407

Luccari, Giacomo, 380; Giovanni, 235

Lučić, Hannibal, 373-4

Macedonia, 164, 166, 170

Manuel Comnenus, Emperor, 38-9, 44

Marko Kraljević, 171, 186

Marmont, General, 397 _sq._

Mary, daughter of Louis of Hungary, 183

Mary Helena, wife of Step. Tomašević, 243

Matthew Corvinus, King of Hungary, 229, 238, 251, 258

Matthew Ninoslav, Banus of Bosnia, 61

Meleda, island of, 37, 107, 178, 292

Menčetić, Šiško, 373

Mezzo, Isola di, 107, 282, 303, 307, 358-9

Michael Balbus, Emperor, 21; Palæologus, 117; Tsar of the Bulgarians, 73-4, 96, 107; I., Despot of Epirus, 116; II., Despot of Epirus, 116

Michelozzi, Michelozzo, 342-4

Michiel, Tribuno, Arch. of Ragusa, 40, 48

Michiel, Vitale, Doge of Venice, 39, 40

Milutinović, General, 409-16

Mohammed I., Sultan, 209; II., 235-7, 240-43, 248, 255, 289; IV., 320

Molitor, General, 390, 395-6

Montrichard, 408, 410, 411

Morea, 264-5, 322-4

Morlachs, 301, 322

Morosini, Marino, Count of Ragusa, 91; Tommaso, Patriarch of Venice, 50

Murad I., Sultan, 170, 186; II., Sultan, 221, 225-7

Nalješković, Nikola, 375

Naples, relations with, 327, 332

Napoleon Bonaparte, 390 _sq._

Narenta, river, 116, 135, 251-2; pirates of, 26-32, 55; Mare di, 94

Nemanja, Stephen, King of the Serbs, 46-7, 59; dynasty, 58

Nikolići, Counts of Hlum, 103

Normans in Dalmatia, 35, 489

Novibazar, 59, 133, 134, 266

Novobrdo, 140, 143, 220, 237

Ochrida, battle of, 247

Ohmučević, Count Ivelja, 308

Ohmučević-Grgurić, Don Pedro d’Ivelja, 307-10; Don Antonio Damiano, 315-316; Don Andrea, 311, 312

Olisti-Diničić-Tasovčić, Don Juan, 310

Olisti-Tasovčić, Don Estevan, 309-10; Don George, 310

Orchan, Emir of the Turks, 170

Orloff, Admiral, 330-31

Orseolo, Pietro, Doge of Venice, 29

Orthodox Christians, 110, 244, 317, 327-8

Ottone, Orseolo, Count of Ragusa, 32, 34

Paccioni, 409-10

Pactbod, General, 401-2

Particiaco I., Giovanni, Doge of Venice, 27

Paul III., Pope, 280-1

Paul Radinović, Lord of Trebinje, 193

Paulimir Belo, King of Rascia, 29

Paulovići, 193; Paul, 210; Radosav, 210

Piracy, 94, 123, 259, 261

Podvisoko, 135

Porta Pile, 57, 354, 408, 411

Porta Ploce, 357, 411

Portugal, expedition to, 308

Pouqueville, 335-6

Pozza-Sorgo, Count, 415

Prazzatto, Michele, 307-8

Prévot, French Consul, 333-5

Priepolje, 133, 134 _note_, 268

Primorije, 194, 197

Prizren, 108 _note_, 139, 145

Radoslav, Count of Hlum, 61; Radoslav II., 62, 74

Radinović, Paul, 210

Ragnina, Clemente, 280-1; Francesco, 332; Niccolò, 380

Ragusa, situation, 4, 5; foundation, 16, 17; name, 17-18; early constitution, 22-3; first submission to Venice, 32-4; second submission, 40-44; third submission, 50, 66, 67; church of, 51-3, 108; independent of Venice, 106; territory of, 107; harbour of, 119, 273-4; submission to Hungary, 171 _sq._; international position, 172-3; relations with the Turks, 169-70; with Hungary, 212; wealth of, 215, 219, 263, _sq._; decline of, 297-8; end of Republic, 414

Ragusan shipping, 2, 53, 68, 306, _sq._; colonies, 142-6

Ragusavecchia, 15, 107, 120, 407-8

Rambuti, Benedetto, 266 _sq._, 276-7

Rector of Ragusa, 82, 170-2

Rector’s Palace, 298, 304, 339-48

Romanesque art, 151 _sq._

Rosario, church of, 351-2

Rudnik, 131, 167

Rukavina, General, 383

Russia, 327-8, 330-3, 388-93

Sabbioncello, 93-6, 135

St. Sava, 59, 134-5; Duchy of, 224

Salamanchesi, faction of, 329-30

San Biagio, bas-relief of, 161; church of, 153, 304; feast of, 215; legend of, 28 and _note_; statuette of, 368-9

S. Giacomo in Peline, church of, 57, 113

S. Luca, church of, 350

S. Niccolò in Prijeki, church of, 57

S. Salvatore, church of, 260, 349

Sant’ Andrea, 107

Sandalj Hranić, Lord of Hlum, 190-93, 203, 209, 210, 219-24

Santa Maria del Biscione, church of, 358

Santa Maria in Casielto, church of, 57

Santissima Annunziata, church of, 350

Sapienza, battle of, 103

Saxons in Bosnia, 142, 144

Scutari, 100, 139, 188, 203, 253-4

Selim the Drunkard, Sultan, 285

Senate, 81-2, 88

Serbs, origin of, 11; civilisation among 147

Sergio, Monte, 18, 19, 57, &c.

Servia, 58, 90-93, 164, 171, 236-8

Servian spoken at Ragusa, 10, 80

Sette Bandiere, 288-9

Shipping, Ragusan, 78, 119-20, 126

Sigismund, King of Hungary, 191-2, 194

Siniavin, Admiral, 390-1, 395

Skanderbeg, 220, 245-8

Slavery at Ragusa abolished, 313-14

Slaves, invasions of, 9; conversion of, 53; renegade, 193

Slavonic States, relations with, 44, 46, 56

Sofia, 140, 266, 270

Sorbonnesi, faction of, 320-30

Sorgo, Count, 397; Stefano, 181

Spain, relations with, 285, 288, 296

Spalato, Archbishopric of, 51, 52

_Specchio_ of nobility, 80, 212

Speranćić, Paul, Banus of Croatia, 239

Srebrnica, 136, 143, 205

Stagno, 93-6, 98-9, 120, 135, 303, 359-60

_Stanico_, 74, 76-78

Stephen, Despot of Servia, 195, 210; son of Kosača, 352; III., King of Servia, 60; IV., King of Servia, 60; Dušan, _see_ Dušan; Lazarević, Despot of Servia, 223-4; Uroš, _see_ Uroš; Ostoja, King of Bosnia, 193-4, 197-9, 202, 210; Ostogić, 210; Thomas, King of Bosnia, 228, 230, 238-9; Tomašević, King of Bosnia, 239-40; Tvrtko, Banus of Bosnia, 167-8; crowned king, 179, 183-5, 187-8, 209, 219-20

Stoicus, Johannes, 223-3

Suleiman Beg, 254; Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan, 261-2

Sutorina, 323

Svetimir, King of Bosnia, 45

Thomas Palæologus, Despot of Achaia, 265

Tiepolo, Pietro, Count of Ragusa, 90

Timoni, Austrian Consul, 387, 398

Tomasić, General, 403

Tonisto, Niccolò, Count of Ragusa, 72-3

Topia, Charles, Lord of Albania, 166

Trade of Ragusa, 100, 115 _sq._, 118, 126, 170, 214, 253, 263, 265-6, 284-5, 207, 328, 338, 386-7; routes, 130 _sq._

Trebinjćica, 130

Trebinje, 130, 267, 295

Trgovište, 134

Tribulzio, Archbishop of Ragusa, 279

Tribunia, 36-7, 44

Tribute to the Turks, 219, 236, 253-4, 260, 323-4

Turks, advance of, 169, 170, 191, 205-6, 219, 220, 223, 244-5; Ragusa’s dealings with, 89, 179, 214, 235, 238, 258-9, 265-6, 278-9, 282-3, 398-9, 409, 412

Uljiša, King of Servia, 165, 170

Uroš, Stephen, 59; the Great, 73; II., 92; IV., 93, 96, 164

Uskoks, 293-6

Usküb, 59, 266

Varna, battle of, 228, 229

Venetians, supreme in the Adriatic, 49; reconquer Dalmatia, 211, 212; in Albania, 253-4; relations with Ragusa, 62 _sq._, 90, 91, 93, 105, 173, 257, 279-280, 282, 286-8, 318, 322-3, 328, 339 _sq._; war with Austria, 295-6; fall of the Republic, 382

Vetranić-Cavčić, Nikola, 374-5

Viridis, Liber, 79

Višegrad, Treaty of, 106

Vladislav, son of Kosača, 234, 252

Vlascnica, 136 and _note_

Vlatko, son of Kosača, 252, 255; Hranić, 186

Vojnović, Vojslav, 165-7, 174-5

Vrhbosna, 225, 266

Vuk Branković, 165, 187

Vukčić, Stephen. _See_ Kosača

William of Sicily, 44, 47

Zamagna, Giacomo, 195; Marino, 261; Niccolò, 195

Zara, 10, 30, 31, 205, 383

Zedda, 136, 165-6, 202, 211

Zellovello, Count of Ragusa, 64-5

Zen, Caterino, 271-2

Zlatarić, Dinko, 376

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