Mavro Orbini [SEP] date of birth
Mavro Orbini
Mavro Orbini (1563–1614) was a Ragusan chronicler, notable for his work "The Realm of the Slavs" (1601) which influenced Slavic ideology and historiography in the later centuries.
Life.
Orbini was born in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik), the capital of the Republic of Ragusa, a Slavic-populated merchant city-state on the eastern shore of the Adriatic sea. His Slavic family drew origin from Kotor (in modern Montenegro), and his name in Slavic was written by himself as
heir, Radivoj's brother Thomas.
Background.
Tvrtko II was the son of Tvrtko I, the first King of Bosnia. The identity of his mother, and thus the legitimacy of his birth, is disputed. The uncertainty also stems from the complex religious situation in medieval Bosnia, where it was often hard to discern between legitimate and illegitimate offspring. The 16th-century Ragusan historian Mavro Orbini, writing of "Tuartco Scuro" (Tvrtko the Plain), claimed that he was born to Tvrtko I's concubine