[1] Bartulović was born on 23 December 1890 in Stari Grad, Hvar, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (modern-day Croatia).

[3] Bartulović initiated and organized the publishing of the literary magazine Književni jug in 1918 while Branko Mašić provided financial sources.

[7] In spring of 1943 Bartulović and two of his associates from Split travelled to Kolašin in the Italian governorate of Montenegro and met with the Chetnik ideologist Dragiša Vasić.

[17] Together with Ferdo Šišić, Grga Novak and Vasilj Popović, Bartulović allegedly belonged to the influential Freemason lodge Dositej Obradović, which spread ideas about integral Yugoslavism within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

[18] During World War II, Bartulović belonged to a group of Croats from Dalmatia who wished to establish a "Yugoslav Revolutionary Movement" which would include all Croats who had not aligned themselves with the communists or Ustaše and establish military units under the name of the "Yugoslav Legion".