Mauro Vetrani (Croatian: Mavro Vetranović;[2] 1482–1576) was a writer and Benedictine monk from Ragusa.
Born in Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), then the Republic of Ragusa, in 1482, he entered the Benedictine Order in 1507 on the island of Meleda, and after a period of education in Monte Cassino in Italy returned to Mljet as the abbot of the monastery.
[1] He wrote prolifically throughout his life, leaving a large body of work including prose, drama, religious and satirical poetry and an unfinished epic running to 4374 verses.
In his writing he revealed himself to be a patriotic Ragusan who also might have shared some sort of identity with other Dalmatians and Croatians.
[3] Croatian academic Franjo Švelec has divided the work of Vetranović into three periods.