Ignjat Đurđević
Croatian Benedictine poet, historian, and theologian (1675-1737)
Ignjat Đurđević, also known as Ignazio Giorgi (February 1675 – 21 January 1737) was a Ragusan Baroque poet and translator, best known for his long poem Uzdasi Mandaljene pokornice ("The Sighs of the Repentant Magdalene"). He wrote poetry in Latin, Italian, and Croatian.
Biography
Đurđević was born in Dubrovnik or Ragusa (now in Croatia) to Bernardo Giorgi and Teresa (née Zlatarić). He did not belong to the House of Giorgi, but to a minor, recently ennobled family, the Giorgi di Bernardo. He was a member of the Great Council (1693), duke of Šipan Island (1695)c and Lovrijenac fortress' captain (1696).
As a member of a rich and respectable family, he lived recklessly and often in debauchery. His love adventures cost him the position of the duke on Šipan. Because of his unrequited love towards a diklica (girl) from Dubrovnik and a libertine poem he wrote to her, Đurđević even had to leave the city for a while. In 1698, he joined the Jesuits in Rome, where he completed philosophy studies and worked as a teacher. In 1706, he joined the Benedictines in Dubrovnik, but was expelled from the city between 1710 and 1712 whereupon he lived in Rome and Naples.
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