Summary
Author of ‘Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga’ (‘Pleasant Conversation of the Slavic People’), who lived in Sumartin from 1745 and served there as guardian. His work on Brač included monastic administration and rebuilding the community.
He headed the monastery in Sumartin from 1747 to 1749.
Brist, the Franciscans and teaching
Kačić Miošić was born in Brist in 1704. He studied and taught philosophy and theology in the Franciscan order. His literary and educational work took shape through teaching, an interest in history and a language accessible to a wide readership.
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The period in Sumartin
From 1745, he lived in the Franciscan monastery in Sumartin and served as guardian from 1747 to 1749. An edition of his chronicle records the construction of a larger monastery and his own physical work on its renovation. He returned to Zaostrog in 1750. His period on Brač therefore involved concrete administrative and building work.
Razgovor ugodni and Fortis
He published ‘Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga’ in 1756 and greatly expanded it in 1759. He recounted history in verse and prose, drawing also on folk literature. Alberto Fortis translated some of his poems, believing them to be folk poetry, helping them circulate across Europe.
