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"To be truly educated," Marulić had once told a gathering of scholars in Split, "is not merely to recite the ancients, but to use their wisdom to elevate our own people."
Marko dipped his quill. He wasn't just copying words; he was building a bridge. This early dawn of literacy and literature was the foundation upon which their national character would be built. As the sun began to rise over the horizon, illuminating the red-tiled roofs of the city, Marko realized that while empires might rise and fall by the sword, a people defined by their letters—their književnost —would remain eternal. Litterarum studia: Knjizevnost i naobrazba rano...
Marko was copying a manuscript of Marko Marulić. He marveled at how the "father of Croatian literature" balanced two worlds. In one hand, Marulić held the classical Latin of the great Roman poets, a symbol of universal naobrazba (education) that connected their small rocky shores to the pulsing heart of the European Renaissance. In the other, he nurtured the "mother tongue," the Croatian vernacular that gave voice to the common soul. "To be truly educated," Marulić had once told