ITALIAN POETRY IN EARLY MODERN DALMATIA: THE STRANGE CASE OF HANIBAL LUCIĆ (1485-1553) I v a n L u p i ć UDK: 821.131.1-1.09Lucić, H. Ivan Lupić Original scientifc paper Stanford University Stanford, California ilupic@stanford.edu The article announces the discovery of Sonetti di messer Anibal Lucio Lesignano, scritti a diversi, a collection of poems written in Italian by Hanibal Lucić (1485-1553), one of the leading poets of the Croatian Renaissance. Until now, scholars have known only one book by Lucić, his Croatian collection entitled Skladanja izvarsnih pisan razlicih, published posthumously by Hanibal’s son Antun. Like Skladanja, Lucić’s Sonetti were published in Venice in 1556, in a beautiful quarto edition produced by Francesco Marcolini, the printer of Skladanja. The article describes this hitherto unknown publication and explains how it was discovered. An edition of the book’s contents is provided at the end of the article in the hope that Lucić’s Italian verse will be studied by scholars on both sides of the Adriatic, and beyond. Lucić’s Sonetti constitute an important document in the essentially multilingual history of the European Renaissance in this part of the world, and they remind us how our focus on national literatures has in some cases rendered the multilingual aspects of the Renaissance tradition practically invisible. * Key words: Hanibal Lucić, Hvar, sonnet, Italian poetry, early modern Dalmatia, history of the book, Francesco Marcolini * An early version of this essay was delivered as a lecture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb on January 10, 2018. The essay has benefted from the assistance, advice, and support of Irena Bratiević, Kathryn James, Bratislav Luin, David Scott Kastan, Stephen Orgel, and Misha Teramura. Part of the research was supported by a fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. It may not be without interest, given the topic, that the essay was conceived in Paris, written in Zagreb, New Haven, San Francisco, Pasadena, São Paulo, and Montevideo, and revised in Buenos Aires.