Petar Hektorović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Petar Hektorović

Croatian writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1487

Place of Birth: Stari Grad, Croatia, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia

Date of Death: 13-Mar-1572

Profession: writer, poet

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Petar Hektorovic (1487 – March 13, 1572) was a Croatian writer.Hektorovic, also known as Pietro Ettoreo or Piero Hettoreo, was born and died in Stari Grad, Hvar.
He was a poet and collector of Hvar's fishermen songs, and an important figure of the Renaissance period in Croatian literature, and he also wrote in Latin and in Italian, language in which he wrote his testament.
His major work Fishing and Fishermen's Talk (Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje, 1568), is a hybrid genre: simultaneously a travelogue, discourse in fishing, reflexive poem and poetic epistle to his friend Jeronim Bartucevic.
It is a treasure of Croatian maritime and zoological terminology, which has become incorporated in Croatian standard language.
As hybrid as his major work, so was Hektorovic's language: chiefly based on a local Cakavian dialect, but amalgamated with the idiom of Štokavian writing poets from Dubrovnik with whom Hektorovic has remained in close contact during his lifetime.