Although an island, Hvar was often at the center of culture such as the Croatian literary Renaissance. One of its major figures is Petar Hektorović whose statue rises in front of his imposing stone house he designed facing the port in Stari Grad. Today it's an ethnographic museum.The Croatian literary renaissance was a 15th and 16th century movement that saw Croat writers who had been using Latin --Hektorović had translated Ovid -- begin to write using their native tongue. Their subject matter included contemporary life, local folk lore, and common people.
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