Ivan Gundulić\u27s timeless Message

This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ivan Gundulić, the great Croatian poet from Dubrovnik. The timelessness and universality of Gundulić\u27s essentially Christian message, with particular emphasis on Christian actuality, as evident in his epic poem Suze sina razmetnoga (The Tears of the Prodigal Son), which reads today like a contemporary drama. The author of this article considers this poem to be the quintessence of Croatian literature