Lovro Monti

Along with Miho Klaić, Natko Nodilo (another Dalmatian Italian), Mihovil Pavlinović, lawyers Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša and Konstantin Vojnović, Monti was one of the founders of the People's Party (″Narodna stranka") in Dalmatia, and the Illyrian movement.

In 1882, due to the dissatisfaction of the new policy of "Narodna Stranka" against the Italians and Serbs in Dalmatia, he resigned from the public life.

In his will he left to the Knin municipality his farm, later called "Montova glavica" with the condition that an agricultural school would be founded there.

During SFRY, the real estate was divided and some leaders of the Knin municipality got assigned for themselves the construction yards.

Monti belonged to the rich "class of gentlemen" and, according to the communist criteria of that time, would have been considered an "heresy" to name a school after him.