Dinko Ranjina

Dinko Ranjina (also Domenico Ragnina) (1536–1607) was a dalmatian poet from the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik).

He travelled to Messina in the hopes of taking up trade and eventually made his way to Florence.

He wrote extensively in both Croatian (about 450 poems) and Italian (about 30 sonnets) in the collection Rime scelte da diversi eccelenti autori from 1563.

Cosimo de' Medici admitted Ragnina to the Order of St. Stephen.

He died in 1607, 71 years old and well esteemed by everybody, after having been Rector (knez) of the Ragusa government seven times.