Church and Convent of St. Francis
Franciscan cloister and church holding the tombs of a pioneering poet and a sculpted statesman.
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This guide to the Church and Convent of St. Francis in Split follows Marko Marulić, a local lawyer and judge who finished an epic poem about a widow who kills an invading general to save her besieged city on the twenty-second of April, 1501, then waited two decades before any printer would touch it. It traces his eventual Venetian publication under the title Judita, and the tomb where Split now honors him near the main altar. In the adjoining cloister you'll also meet sculptor Ivan Meštrović's work on the sarcophagus of statesman Ante Trumbić. Walk the cloister floor slowly, and you're standing where a poet and a sculptor, four centuries apart, both ended up remembered for the same city.
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