Anica Bošković (born 1714 in

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– died 13 August 1804 in Ragusa) was a Ragusan writer. She wrote a pastoral song and translated from the Italian language. Christian themes permeate her work. Hers was one of the first important women's names in Ragusan literature.

Biography

Her work, ''The Dialogue'' (1758), was the first and sole literary work written by a female author in the literature of Ragusa. She was born in

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-- to Nikola Bošković, a Ragusan merchant, originally from Orahov Do near

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), and Paola Bettera (1674–1777), scion of a wealthy family -- on either November 3 or December 3, 1714, the youngest of nine children. One of her brothers,

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,Biography: Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J.
Fairchild University website. and two other brothers, the Latinist Baro Bošković and the poet Petar Bošković, contributed to Ragusan culture. She died as the last child of the family of Nikola and Pava Bošković. She died on 12 August 1804. She was buried next to her mother in the Franciscan church on Stradun in Dubrovnik. The "Anica Bošković" Society erected a tombstone in 1939. She never married. In addition to Croatian, she spoke Latin, French, and Italian.

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* * *Ante Kadić: Otkriće Amerike u hrvatskoj književnosti, Hrvatska revija br. 42/1992. *Ante Kadić: Ruđer J. Bošković : njegov književni i duhovni lik : prigodom 200-godišnjice njegove smrti, Hrvatska revija br. 37/1987. *Nevenka Nekić: Skica za portret Ruđera Boškovića, Hrvatska revija br. 49/1999. *Mirko Kratofil: Historiografija o Dubrovniku u 1999. godini., Hrvatska revija br. 50/2000. *Zbornik stihova i proze 18. stoljeća. "PSHK", knj. 19, prir. R. Bogišić, Zagreb 1973. (Mateša Antun Kuhačević; Vid Došen; Antun Ivanošić; Đuro Hidža; Marko Bruerović; Anica Bošković) *Sebastijan Slade, Fasti litterario-Ragusini, Dubrovačka književna kronika, Hrvatski institut za povijest, (Biblioteka Hrvatska povjesnica. Posebna izdanja), Zagreb, 2001 1714 births 1804 deaths 18th-century Croatian poets 18th-century Croatian women writers 18th-century Croatian writers People from Dubrovnik Croatian women poets Ragusan poets {{Croatia-poet-stub