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Robertus Bonaventura Britannus (Robert Turner) and the Lost Manuscript of Dinko Zavorović's De Rebus Dalmaticis

To date the unclear circumstances of the loss of the original version of the manuscript De rebus Dalmaticis, the first history of Dalmatia, by Dinko Zavorović, humanist and historian from Šibenik (cca. 1540-1608), have not been the subject of detailed research and analysis. Although Croatian historians writing on that period knew that the British priest Robertus Bonaventura played a key role in the disappearance of Zavorović's manuscript, as it was evident from Zavorović's epistle to Suričević, published at the beginning of the second version of the work De rebus Dalmaticis, this was not probed beyond the unquestioning conclusion reached by Dinko Zavorović himself. Although the two epistles which Dinko Zavorović exchanged with his friend Toma Suričević in 1602 are the only known written evidence about the loss of Zavorović's original manuscript of De rebus Dalmaticis, a more in-depth analysis of the circumstances surrounding the event and the perpetrator of the literary "scandal", clearly demonstrates that even though the manuscript has not been recovered, the vilification of Robertus Bonaventura Britannus (Robert Turner) was unfounded.

Humanism ; Renaissance ; Croatian historiography ; Dalmatia ; Manuscripts ; Archival research ; Robert Turner ; Robertus Bonaventura Britanus ; Dinko Zavorović

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