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In 1869 a man from Labin, Tomaso Luciani (7 March 1818 – 9 March 1894) published a twenty-page script in Pula (format 14x21 cm) entitled ‘Matthias Flacius, An Istrian Man from Labin, Notes and Documents’ (Mattia Flacio Istriano di Albona. Notizie e documenti). Tomaso Luciani is otherwise known as a peculiar person, who was, due to his political views which were considered to be purely irredentist, unjustifiably neglected and suppressed in books dealing with Istrian history over the last sixty years. Nevertheless, his scientific work cannot be avoided. Luciani by no means accepts the opinion of Dr Stulli, who claims that Flacius was born near Dubrovnik, and says: It is hard to accept Dr Stulli’s claims, to a man from Labin and even harder to one of the Lucianis…who thinks that Flacius was a member of their family regarding that he was a son of a Luciani woman and a pupil of that priest Baldo Lupetina, another famous person from Labin who was ignored or unappreciated until now. Luciani mentions that the noble canon Stancovich responded perfectly to Stulli, and makes reference to Bayle, who has written that Flacius was born in Labin, and Gravisi, who claims the same and appreciates Flacius as a historian and philologist. |
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In 1886 Ermanno NACINOVICH, a man from Labin who graduated from the University of Zadar, published in Rijeka his 67-page book ‘Biographical and Historical Study on Flacius’ (Flacio- Studio bibliografico storico). Nacinovich says that he based his work upon Flacius’ biographies written by Wilhelm Preger and Johann Balthasar Ritter. He especially praises Preger because of his comprehensively written book where Flacius is, according to his importance, placed right after Martin Luther.
The next seven chapters include Flacius’ biography and his work. Nacinovich describes Flacius as follows: Pure intelligence; Flacius’ authority was a product of a higher doctrine; a wise mind who gave his personal unique touch to that time of Church history; a real-life scholar; daring guest; remarkable, extraordinary activity of the young man from Labin; a man of broad initiatives; Flacius’ stubbornness, he is the ghost of religious doubts; boiling blood; |
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Mijo MIRKOVIĆ (28 September 1898 – 17 February 1963) known under the pseudonym Mate Balota, was born in Rakalj village, across the Raša Channel. He attended Croatian secondary school in Pazin, and a Classics-focused high school in the Czech Republic. He studied philosophy, economics and social studies in Zagreb, Belgrade, Bratislava and Frankfurt am Main, where he completed his PhD in 1923 with the thesis ‘About the Main Reason for the Economic Underdevelopment of the Slavic Nations’. He was sent to prison for political reasons many times, and spent time in jails in Pula, Ljubljana, Krk, Kraljevica, Kopar, Trieste, Rijeka, Karlovac and Zemun. He was only ten when he got on board as an assistant stoker, and later worked as a stone-carver, blaster, railway worker, assistant print shop type-setter, journalist, clerk, accountant, sailing ship fisherman, waiter etc. However, he was also Commercial, Industrial and Craftsmen Chamber secretary, associate and full professor at Subotica Law faculty, full professor at Belgrade College of Economics, dean of the Economics Faculty in Zagreb, member of the Academy and JAZU (Yugoslav Academy of Science and Art) head secretary. For some time he also served as an assistant of the minister in the DFJ (Federative State of Yugoslavia) Government. |
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Oliver Kermit OLSON, born in 1927 in a family of Norwegian immigrants in state of Minnesota. He earned his PhD in Hamburg in 1966, with the dissertation entitled The Missa Illyrica and the Liturgical Thought of Flacius Illyricus. He was a professor at St. Olaf College in Minneapolis, the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia and Marquette University in Milwaukee (Wisconsin). All his active life he was constantly dealing with Flacius. |
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Literature about Flacius
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Primary Sources
Beza, Theodore, De sacramentali corporis et sanguinis Christi cum sacris symbolis coniunctione adursus Matthiae Flacii Illyrici falsissimas demonstrationes, in Theodore Beza Vezelii Tractatus tres de rebus grauissimus scripti (Genevae: Jean Crespin, 1565).
________ . Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze. Tome VI, 1565. Henri Meylan,
Alain Dufour and Alexandre de Henseler (eds.), [Coll. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 63] (Geneve: Libraire Droz, 1970). |
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Matthias Flacius Illyricus
