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{{Short description|1556 poem by Petar Hektorović}}
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'''''Fishing and Fishermen's Talk''''' ({{langx|hr|Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje}}), also translated as '''''Fishing and Fishermen's Conversations''''',<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYpiAAAAMAAJ |title = Fishing and fishermen's conversations by Petar Hektorović|isbn = 9789539703125|last1 = Hektorović|first1 = Petar|date = January 1997| publisher=Faros }}</ref> is the most important literary work of [[Croatia]]n Renaissance poet [[Petar Hektorović]], finished on January 14, 1556, and printed in 1568 in [[Venice]]. ''Ribanje'' is a pastoral and philosophic narrative poem in three parts in which Hektorović describes in a letter to his cousin, his three-day boat trip from [[Hvar]] to [[Brač]] and [[Šolta]], accompanied by a pair of Hvar fishermen, Paskoje Debelja and Nikola Zet.<ref name="Croatia-aspects-art"/>

As a literary piece ''Ribanje'' has been variously classified in Croatian literary history as an [[epistle]], as a fishermen [[eclogue]] or epic poem, and at other times as a documentary [[Travel literature|travelogue]].<ref name="yul"/>

==Content and analysis==
[[Image:Hektorovic notes.gif|thumb|left|The score of two [[bugaršćica]]s recorded by Hektorović, "Kada mi se Radosave vojevoda" and "I kliče devojka", from the first edition of ''Ribanje'', Venice, 1568]]
According to its content ''Ribanje'' is the first piece of Croatian literature written in verse in which travel is not described allegorically, but as a real journey, describing the beauties of nature and homeland. It's a travelogue of a Renaissance man who enjoys nature and considers it to be a refuge for man's spirit where it can achieve complete relaxation and invigoration. ''Ribanje'' is the first described tourist journey of a modern, Renaissance man in Croatian literature; it is a first piece of Croatian culture in which world is described by parameters of human's concrete, earthly needs. To sum it up, ''Ribanje'' is the first secular, mimetic, realistic travelogue of Croatian literature.

In the poem the narrator—the poet himself—describes his journey across [[Adriatic]] islands and recounts events that he and his co-travellers experienced along the path. The narrator, great aesthetic and sensitive to beauty, often describes the landscape the company sailed through, admiring the beauties of his homeland.

The descriptive accounts of ''Ribanje'' combine the narrative parts in which events of the journey are detailed, along with the fishermens' complaints, dialogues and conversations. The poet-narrator often cites the conversation of the fishermen, quoting the truth, as he sees it, of their wise sayings and intelligent conversations.

Hektorović meticulously recorded the songs sung by the fishermen along the way, making this one of the earliest examples in Croatian literature to include transcribed folk music within the text.<ref name="Croatia-aspects-art"/> There are two [[bugaršćica]]s and three short songs, toasts or honorific songs, sung alternatively by the fishermen. This makes ''Ribanje'' a work that makes an interesting and aesthetically valuable synthesis, a blending of artistic and folk literature.

==Translations==

The work has been translated from Croatian to English as ''Fishing and fishermen's conversation'' by Edward Dennis Goy in 1979. In 1999 [[Matica hrvatska]] published a facsimile reprint of the edition princeps of ''Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje'', with parallel translation to modern standard Croatian, conducted by [[Marko Grčić]].<ref name="mh"/> The only two extant copies of the first edition are held at the library of [[Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts]].

==Movie adaptations==

A feature film adaptation of the work by Croatian film director [[Milan Trenc]], starring [[Rade Šerbedžija]] as Hektorović and [[Leon Lučev]] as Paskoje, was released in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pulafilmfestival.hr/hr/filmovi/3617 |title=Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje |access-date=2020-10-11 |archive-date=2020-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016054111/https://www.pulafilmfestival.hr/hr/filmovi/3617 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>https://www.havc.hr/img/newsletter/files/dugi%20igrani_obrazlozenje_final_15052017.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/more/vijesti/clanak/id/491784/milan-trenc-ribanje-nemaju-ni-talijani-ni-francuzi-da-imaju-bio-bi-to-brend-na-kojem-bismo-im-mi-zavidjeli | title=Milan Trenc: 'Ribanje' nemaju ni Talijani ni Francuzi. Da imaju, bio bi to brend na kojem bismo im mi zavidjeli}}</ref>

==References==

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<ref name="Croatia-aspects-art">{{Citation | last = Clifford | first = Timothy | date = 2009 | title = Italy & Dalmatia: Architecture, Painting and the Decorative Arts, c 1400-1800 | page=140 | quote=Hektorovic was the author of an extraordinary work of Croatian literature, Ribaranje i Ribarsko prigovaranje... was the earliest Croatian to transcribe the music of folk songs and include the notation in a text. | edition = Croatia: Aspects of Art, Architecture and Cultural Heritage | editor = International Trust for Croatian Monuments | location = London | publisher = Frances Lincoln Ltd | isbn = 978-0-7112-2921-1}}</ref>

<ref name="yul">{{cite web |url=http://yufind.library.yale.edu/yufind/Author/Home?author=Hektorovic%CC%81%2C%20Petar%2C%201487-1572. |title=Petar Hektorović library items |publisher=Yale University Library |accessdate=24 September 2011}}</ref>

<ref name="mh">{{cite web |url=http://www.matica.hr/www/wwwizd2.nsf/AllWebDocs/RibanjeIRibarskoPrigovaranje |title=Petar Hektorović: Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje. S izvornika u suvremeni hrvatski jezik prenio Marko Grčić |publisher=Matica hrvatska |language=Croatian |trans-title=Petar Hektorović: Fishing and Fisherman's Talk. Translated from the original into modern Croatian by Marko Grčić |accessdate=24 September 2011}}</ref>

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==External links==
{{wikisourcelang|hr|Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje}}
* [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3961835 Fishing and Fishermen’s Conversations] in libraries ([[WorldCat]] catalog)
* [http://enciklopedija.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=14324 Fishing and Fishermen’s Conversations - finished on January 14th, 1556, and published in Venice in 1568]

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[[Category:Early modern Croatian literature]]

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