DRAGIŠIĆ, GIORGIO. — Croatian Franciscan, humanist, philosopher, and theologian, born in Srebrenica in Bosnia around the middle of the 15th century, died in Barletta in 1520. He studied in Italy, Paris, and Oxford; in 1470 he was in Rome in the retinue of Cardinal Bessarione; in 1472 he was tutor to Guidobaldo, son of Federico da Montefeltro. In 1485 he was a teacher of theology and rector of the Franciscan school in Florence; Lorenzo il Magnifico summoned him to educate his sons Giovanni (the future Leone X) and Pietro. In 1507 he was elected bishop of Cagli and in 1512 promoted to titular archbishop of Nazareth, and in that capacity, in 1515, took part in the Fifth Lateran Council.
D. is ranked among the foremost theologians of his time and appears as a conciliator of Platonism and Aristotelianism. In the Savonarola affair, he sided with him, writing Propheticae solutiones pro Hieronymo Savonarola (Florence 1497). Among his works, the following should be mentioned: Logica nova secundum mentem Scoti et B. Thomae Aquinatis aliorumque, there 1480 (3rd ed., Rome 1520, under the title Artis dialecticae praecepta vetera ac nova).
BIBLI: J. Jelenič, Kultura i basaniki franjevei, I, Sarajevo 1912, pp. 230–231; B. Vodnik, Povijest hrvatske književnosti, I, Zagabria 1913, p. 76; J. T. Harapin, L'evoluzione della filosofia presso i Croati, in Croazia sacra, Rome 1943, pp. 80–81; M. Vanino, Gli studi teologici presso i Croati, ibid., p. 96. Pietro Čapkun