Antun Vrančić

Antun Vrančić was a Croatian humanist born in Šibenik.

After his studies finished in Padua, Vienna and Krakow, he became a counsellor to the Hungarian King Ivan Zapolja, but in 1549, he passed to the side of the Habsburgs and serving the Croatian and Hungarian King, Ferdinand I, he carried out an excellent career as a diplomat. As a writer he wrote poems and travel books, and his correspondence with Erasmus of Rotterdam, Nikola Zrinski and other famous people is considered of particular importance.