Frano Getaldic-Gundulic
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Baron Frano Getaldić-Gundulić or Francesco Ghetaldi-Gondola (August 8, 1833 - July 3, 1899) was the first son of Šišmundo Getaldić-Gundulić
Šišmundo Getaldic-Gundulic
Šišmundo Getaldić-Gundulić was son of Frano Getaldić-Gundulić and Marija Natali. He married Malvina Uršula Božidarević. In 1845, the Austrian government granted him the title of Baron. He was mayor of Dubrovnik for more than 13 years, counting on the respect and social support of the city...

 and Malvina Uršula Bosdari. Getaldić-Gundulić was a member of the Knights of St. John from 1889 until the death of the Mayor of Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

. He was decorated with the Cross of Devotion (S.M.O) on June 15, 1857. He fought in the Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...

 (1870–1871). Getaldić-Gundulić founded the Filatelic Society in Dubrovnik on December 4, 1890. A political party in 1879, the Catholic Serbs replied by forming a movement of their own under the leadership of Baron Frano Gundulić. The chief ideologue was Dum Ivan Stojanović
Ivan Stojanović
Ivan Stojanović was a Catholic priest who wrote the book 'Dubrovacka literature' , arguing that the people of Dubrovnik were Roman Catholic by religion, but by language Serbian...

 (+1900), a Catholic priest.

For other side Baron Gondola, an improving landlord
Landlord
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 and horticulturist of Lapad, introduced some years ago brussels sprouts, blue cabbage, and other vegetables, later Baron Gondola founded an Agronomy school in Lapad, Gruž.

The Baron Gondola, was carried along with the International Committee composed for the English ladies Miss Adeline Pauline Irby (*1831 +1911 Sarajevo
Sarajevo
Sarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....

) and Miss Priscilla Johnston (+1912 England) under M. Wesselitsky, for Herzegovin refugees peoples, the Baron Gondola wrote to the Times
Times
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 magazine, asking for further help for the refugees, his letter appeared on 12 April 1875. More than 150,000 people took refuge in Austro-Hungary in 1875 due to the Herzegovinian rebellion
Herzegovinian rebellion
The Herzegovina Uprising of 1875-1878 was an uprising led by Christians, firstly in Herzegovina and then in Bosnia. It is the most significant of the rebellions against Ottoman rule in Herzegovina...

.

In 1889, the Serbian political circle in Dubrovnik supported Baron Frano Getaldić-Gundulić, the candidate of the Autonomist Party
Autonomist Party
The Autonomist Party was a political party in the Dalmatian political scene, that existed for around 70 years of the nineteenth century and until World War I. Its goal was to maintain the autonomy of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as opposed to the unification with the...

 (Dalmatians who were pro-Italian), in the 1890 election to the Parliament of Dalmatia
Parliament of Dalmatia
The Diet of Dalmatia was the regional assembly of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

, against the candidate of the People's Party
People's Party (Kingdom of Dalmatia)
People's Party was a political party in the Kingdom of Dalmatia. It was founded in 1861 after the failure of Bach's absolutism, as branch of the People's Party in Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia...

 (Dalmatians who were pro-Croatian). In the following year during the election of the local government, the Autonomous Party with the Serbian Party won the municipal election in Dubrovnik. Frano always wrote, he wasn't "Croatian, Serbian or Italian" in his ethnic affiliation only a Ragusan (Raguseo).

In 1893, he opened the monument
Unveiling of the Gundulic monument
The unveiling of the Gundulić monument in Dubrovnik on May 20, 1893, was a symbolical event in the political history of Dubrovnik, since it brought to the surface the wider tensions between the Croats and the Serbs in the pre-World War I political struggles in the region.-The preparation:At its...

 for Ivan Gundulić
Ivan Gundulic
Ivan Franov Gundulić is the most celebrated Croatian Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa. His work embodies central characteristics of Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: religious fervor, insistence on "vanity of this world" and zeal in opposition to "infidels." Gundulić's major...

 in Gundulić Square. Unmarried, he died in Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

 in 1899. Frano lived with his sister Maria in the Vila Gundulić. He was buried in the St. Mihajlo family cemetery in Lapad (in the Gruž
Gruž
Gruž is modern day neighborhood in the greater city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The main port for Dubrovnik is in Gruž as well as its largest market and the main bus station "Libertas". Around 15,000 people currently live in Gruž...

 district).

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