Sebastiano Dolci (; 1699-1777) was a Ragusan historian and writer.Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani ''Treccani'' (in Italian)
/ref> The Italian word ''Dolci'' means "sweet", and ''Slade'' is a Croatian translation of the name. He joined the

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at the age of 14, and in 1744 wrote about the Franciscan Order in Ragusa. In 1750, he published a biography of Saint Jerome. Dolci was a great scholar of the

Illyrian language The Illyrian language () was an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language or group of languages spoken by the Illyrians in Southeast Europe during antiquity. The language is unattested with the exception of personal names and placenames. ...

, publishing several books on the subject, including an overview of the literature of his native

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. In his theological work, he also translated the epistle of into Illyrian. He died in Ragusa in 1777 at the age of 78.

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*''Monumenta historica provinciae Rhacusinae Ordinis'',

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, 1746 *''Maximus Hieronymus vitae suae scriptor, sive de moribus, doctrina et rebus gestis divi Hieronymi Stridoniensis'',

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, 1750 *''De Illyricae linguae vetustate et amplitudine, dissertatio historico-chronologico-critica'',

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, 1754 *''Fasti litterario-ragusini'', Venice, 1767

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Sebastiano Dolci
1699 births 1777 deaths Ragusan writers People from the Republic of Ragusa Friars Minor Slavists 18th-century Italian writers 18th-century Italian male writers 18th-century writers in Latin {{Croatia-writer-stub

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