Savino Bobali
Ragusan poet
Savino Bobali (Croatian: Sabo Bobaljević Mišetić, 1530–1585), nicknamed "the Deaf" (Sordo, Glušac), was a Ragusan nobleman, politician and founder of the literary "Academy of Concords". He wrote poetry in Italian and also in Croatian.
Life
Born into the local nobility of Ragusa, he became at 20 a member of the Great Council of the Republic of Ragusa and set about fulfilling the duties that fell to him as an aristocrat. With Amalteo and Nascimbeni he founded a literary academy, the "Academy of Concords". The members met in the Palace of Customs, to read their rhymes. This palace was also the meeting place for other important individuals of Dubrovnik, as Lucijan Ghetaldi, Natal Tudisi, Marin Kosta (also member of the Accademia dei Confusi of Viterbo), Marin Držić, Dinko Ranjina, Nikola Primi, Luka Sorkočević, the poet Julija Bona, Mihajlo Monaldi.
Bobali contracted syphilis at a young age. Because of his condition he had to move to his castle in Ston near Dubrovnik, where he spent segregated the most part of his life. There he works on his poetry and studies. He complained in his poems of his physical condition, that it did not allow him to live according to his impetuous nature.
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