Vladimir Vidrić

He was one of the leaders of the demonstrators who burned the Hungarian flag on the occasion of the emperor Franz Joseph's visit to Zagreb in 1895.

In addition to his affiliations with controversial progressive political circles, Vidrić was known for his adventurous life, great intelligence, and prodigious memory.

Some of his contemporaries, such as Matoš, accused him of technical imperfections, wrong accents in rhymes, and raw style.

The Croatian literary historian Ivo Frangeš wrote, "Vidrić's world feels like a fragment of an ancient vase, where the incomplete nature of the preserved scene is used to strengthen the effect.

It is a miniature world, painfully clear, with a miraculous third dimension that goes far beyond our everyday ideas of width and depth."