Josip Bersa

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Josip or Giuseppe Bersa (Zadar, Austria-Hungary, 13 January 1862 - Zadar, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 5 December 1932) was a Yugoslav poet and archaeologist who spent his childhood in Dubrovnik, though born in Zadar. He is best remembered today for his revealing book Dubrovačke slike i prilike (The Gleanings from Dubrovnik), first published in Zagreb, 1941. According to Bersa, in 19th-century Dubrovnik the spoken language was Slavonic-Serbian, then common to all Slavic peoples.

In the 1920s, Josip Bersa was the conservator, director of the Archaeological Museum in Zadar, and author of a series of studies on the archaeological sites of Dalmatia and cultural and historical guides on Zadar (Guida storico-artistica di Zara, 1926). Under the pseudonym Lorenzo Travasini, Bersa wrote poems -- Sonetti zaratini (1902) -- and prose -- S mora i primorja (1896) -- with a Mediterranean atmosphere and librettos for operas by his brothers Blagoje and Vladimir Bersa

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