He was born in Dubrovnik in 1587. He joined the
Dominicans in 1601 from which he learned philosophy and theology. Four years later, in 1605, he went to the end of the study in
Bologna. In 1612 he returned to Dubrovnik as a
lecturer. Three times he was a general vicar of the Dominicans. Fourteen years later, in 1626, he established the first public
gymnasium on the ground floor of the Dominican monastery (in 1685 it was taken over by the Jesuits). There he was a teacher and he emphasized the importance of learning
Croatian. He is the author of the first
orthography of Croatian, which was intended for students of the gymnasium. In 1639 he published a language discussion
Nauk za piisati dobro latinskiema slovima rieci yezika slovinskoga koyiemse Dubrovcani, i sva Dalmatia kakko vlasctitiem svoyiem yezikom sluzci, where he proposed a simple and consistent consonant
writing system: double letters only write voices ć, đ, lj, nj, š and ž, but also the complicated use of
accent marks. His
letter suggestions did not survive in practice. == Bibliography ==