Savino Bobali

Savino Bobali (Croatian: Sabo Bobaljević Mišetić, 1530–1585), nicknamed "the Deaf" (Sordo, Glušac), was a Ragusan nobleman, politician and founder of the literary "Academy of Concords".

This palace was also the meeting place for other important individuals of Dubrovnik, as Lucijan Ghetaldi, Natal Tudisi, Marin Kosta (also member of the Accademia dei Confusi of Viterbo), Marin Držić, Dinko Ranjina, Nikola Primi, Luka Sorkočević, the poet Julija Bona, Mihajlo Monaldi.

He was non-conformist, disobedient and rebellious; when, because of his health condition, he finally decided to move to the countryside, he began a journey into meditation and in his own soul.

Therefore, giving vent to his ripped intimacy, he fulfilled the poetic space with very personal reflections and conflicting tensions, in a way not experienced yet.

His verses were collected by his friends, and they were first published with the title "Rime amorose, pastorali e satiriche del magnifico Savino de Bobali Sordo, Gentiluomo Raguseo", by Aldine Press in Venice in 1589, four years after his death.