Frančesko Micalović
Frančesko Ratkov Micalović was an early 16th-century Ragusan printer who printed the first books on vernacular language of population of contemporary Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik).
Frančesko Ratkov Micalović | |
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Colophon of Officio (1512) | |
| Born | Ivan or Jovan Vukosalić |
| Nationality | Ragusan |
| Other names | Franciscus Ratchi Mizalovich, Franjo, Frano |
| Occupation | printer |
| Notable work | Officio and Molitvenik |
Micalović prepared Cyrillic script types and organized printing of prayer books in Venice in 1512. These prayer books are known as Molitvenik and Officio. Micalović was obliged to collect printed books and to sell them in his shop which he was to open in Dubrovnik and in Ottoman Serbia.
In sources, the language of these prayer books and the script in which it is printed is referred to as Bosnian, Ragusan, Serbian, Croatian, or Serbo-Croatian, depending on the point of view of its authors, and the Cyrillic script used to print them is in sources referred to as Bosančica.