LUCIUS (Lucio, Lucio), GIOVANNI. – Founder of Croatian critical historiography, born in Traù in September 1604, died in Rome on 11 January 1679.
He studied in Rome and Padua and wrote: *Vita beati Ioannis episcopi Traguriensis* (Rome 1657); but his most important work is *De regno Dalmatiae et Croatae libri sex* (Amsterdam, 1666; 2nd ed. in I. G. Schwandtner, *Scriptores rerum Hungaricarum, Dalmaticarum et Slavonicarum veteres ac genuini*, III, Vienna, 1748; the 3rd ed., ibid. 1738, is defective), which contains many archival documents and writings of ancient and contemporary historians (in the appendix the unpublished *Historia Salvatissima* by the Split archdeacon ROMANUS). It covers the period from the beginnings up to 1420, and briefly to 1480, and is also limited territorially, namely to old Croatia from Mount Gvozda to the Neretva and to the Dalmatian cities and islands. Other important works: *Memorie storiche di Tragurio ora detto Traù* (Venice, 1673), *Inscriptiones Dalmaticae* etc. (ibid. 1673).