Literature
Marin Držić
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Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
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Art School Park
He appeared as a character alongside figures from his plays in the site-specific production Victory Over the Enemies.
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Dubrovnik City Hall and Great Council Hall Site
His comedy Dundo Maroje was performed in the City Hall council chamber in 1551.
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Garište Street
He placed Garište inside Omakala's detailed account of everyday work in Grižula.
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Gradac Park
His pastoral comedy Grižula has been staged site-specifically among the trees of Gradac Park.
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House of Marin Držić
The museum interprets Držić's plays, travels and surviving conspiratorial letters against Ragusa's government.
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Marin Držić Monument
He is represented as a seated, slightly mischievous figure beside the historic civic and theatrical center of Dubrovnik.
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Marin Držić Theatre
A cultural venue dedicated to Marin Držić, a prominent Renaissance playwright from Dubrovnik.
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Ombla Spring and Držić Family Estate Landscape
He stayed and wrote on his family's Ombla property, transforming the surrounding landscape into the pastoral world of Tirena.
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Palmotićeva Street and Duičini Steps
He used Duičini skalini as a recognizable piece of Dubrovnik's sexual and carnival geography in Novela od Stanca.
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Peline Street
He incorporated Peline and its socially marginal inhabitants into several comedies.
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Pred Dvorom Renaissance Stage
His Pomet and Tirena were staged in this open space at the beginning of his Dubrovnik theatrical career.
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Sveti Andrija Monastery Ruins
He praised Vetranović in Tirena, the work at the center of the plagiarism dispute that Vetranović helped end.
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Ulica od Puča (Former Među Crjevjare)
His wedding plays were staged in a palace on this street, which also entered the lived urban world behind his comedies.
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