Šišmundo Gundulic - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Šišmundo Gundulić, also Sigismondo Gondola, (c.July

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1634– September 16, 1682) son of famous poet 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...

and Nika Sorkočević, and brother of the Austrian Marshal Fran Dživo Gundulić

Fran Dživo Gundulic

Count Fran Đivo Gundulić or Francesco Giovanni Gondola; was a member of an old noble family from Dubrovnik , the House of Gundulić. He was a child of famous poet Ivan Gundulić and Nika Sorkočević +1644...

. He was also a Rector of the Republic of Ragusa

Republic of Ragusa

The Republic of Ragusa or Republic of Dubrovnik was a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia , that existed from 1358 to 1808...

(Dubrovnik).

Biography

Following the footsteps of his father, he also composed diverse poetry, poetry of both father and son was distinguished by the same similar elegance, some of their works were translated in the L´Epithalame de Catulle, other great musical works in 1662 Sunčanica
Suncanica
Sunčanica is a historical opera composed by Boris Papandopulo, with a libretto by Marko Soljačić based on Ivan Gundulić's Osman and his son Šišmundo Gundulić, who continued the Osman, about the Sunčanica history....

. His first wife is unknown but he remarried with Katarina de Nale and had four children, Fran Gundulić II k.k General der Cav., Dživo Šiškov Gundulić

Dživo Šiškov Gundulic

Đivo Šiškov Gundulić , son of Šišmundo Gundulić and Katarina Nale, was the Rector of the Republic of Ragusa between 1696-1700. Following his father and his grandfather, he also wrote poetry: Suze i tužbe Radmilove , Radmio , Oton and Filomena...

(c.1678 c.1721), Hieronymus Gundulić and Šiško Frano Gundulić II (*1682 + 1758) was one of the founders the first Austrian Lodge Zu den drei in Vienna 17 September 1742, in 7 March 1743 became Master of the Lodge Zu den drei Kanonen of Freemasonry

Freemasonry

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. Šišmundo married Pier An. Crijević and had the last Gundulić male line, Šiško Dominko Gundulić, the daughter Katarina Gundulić married with Matej Getaldić, continued with the surname Getaldić-Gundulić, by adoption for the son of Katarina, Frano Augustin Getaldić-Gundulić.

He was also known by his bad habits, his public addiction to alcohol and his public scandals in the city of Dubrovnik. Šiško died in the Sponza palace (Rector's Palace) in 1682.

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