Parish church of Saint John the Baptist
Neo-Romanesque parish church where a national poet first glimpsed his lifelong unrequited muse.
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This guide to the Trnovo parish church of Saint John the Baptist in Ljubljana begins on a spring morning in eighteen thirty-three, when a law-office assistant named France Prešeren climbs toward its door. It follows him into the orbit of Julija Primic, a sixteen-year-old from a wealthy merchant family, and into the sonnets that came out of it. Stand facing the entrance and listen for the dispute over whether that morning happened at all.
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