Vinko Pribojević (Latin: Vincentius Priboevius mid-15th century – after 1532)[1] was a writer and Dominican monk from the Republic of Venice, best known as one of the founders of the early pan-Slavic ideology.
[2] In particular, in accordance with the humanist approach of the Renaissance that combined scripture with ancient myth, Pribojević claimed that the paleo-Balkanic populations such as the Illyrians, Thracians and Macedonians were of a Slavic character.
[5] American historian John Van Antwerp Fine, Jr. notes Pribojević and Juraj Šižgorić among the early modern scholars from Dalmatia who did not consider themselves to be Croats, but rather identified with Slavs and Illyrians.
[8] Its passionate glorification of Slavs and its strong pathos played a major role in the birth of the pan-Slavic ideology.
[7] Pribojević was the first to incorporate Illyrians and their myth into the Croatian and Slavic historiography (or rather ideology), as a shield and rampart against the German, Hungarian and Italian national and territorial ambitions.