. Travels and politics in the Near East. , whose best representative, Gundulic, earlypreached the independence and unity of the Slavs, in hisepic, Osinan, scenes from which now adorn his statue in 30. Travels and Politics the market-place. At no time, I am told, was Slav the officiallanguage of the Republic, which used sometimes Latinand sometimes Italian in its state papers, and had evento employ a Slav interpreter on an emergency, as onevolume of the Kagusan records shows. But, though thebest Ragusan families, some of whom still pride them-selves on their patrician origin, can still speak It
. Travels and politics in the Near East. , whose best representative, Gundulic, earlypreached the independence and unity of the Slavs, in hisepic, Osinan, scenes from which now adorn his statue in 30. Travels and Politics the market-place. At no time, I am told, was Slav the officiallanguage of the Republic, which used sometimes Latinand sometimes Italian in its state papers, and had evento employ a Slav interpreter on an emergency, as onevolume of the Kagusan records shows. But, though thebest Ragusan families, some of whom still pride them-selves on their patrician origin, can still speak Italian, thenames of the streets are now put up in Slav alone, andthat is the tongue of the vast majority of the , indeed, as Ragusa is—at the last census it numbered11,177 ^<Lils—it possesses the dubious advantage ofthree separate clubs, the Italian, the Croatian, and theSerb, each representative of the three sections into whichDalmatia is unhappily divided. While the Italians andthe Croats have the same Catholic religion but differentlanguages yet the same alphabet, the Croats and the Serbshave practically the same language, except for the factthat the Croats emplo}^ the Lat
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