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Despot Stefan Lazarević

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The year 1481: Martin Segon (Martinus Segonius Nouomotanus) [To the Most Blessed Sixtus IV, Roman Pontiff. A Treatise on the Provisioning of Otranto…]: „Sed superiorem viam sequendo patentibus campis Godomiri, / praeter celebre fanum Resavae, regum atque principum illustratum sepulchris, / non procul pertransito amne Maioris Moravae relictisque sinistrorsum agris Brailovae, per pagum Branizevum [praeter celebre fanum Resavae, regum atque principum illustratum sepulchris,] pergitum ad Nisum, olim, ut ex ruinis cernitur, civitatem peregreriam. Nunc instar vici redacta a Turcis et Bulgaris habitatur; ...“ Opusculum reverendi domini Domini Martini de Segonis natione Catharensis origine autem Serviani ex Novomontio aliter Novobardo dicto Dei gratia episcope Olchinensis, Ad Beatissimum Sixtum IV Romanum Pontificem. Tractatus de provisione Hydronti et de ordine militum Turci et eius origine, II, 1. = Agostino Pertusi, Martino Segono di Novo Brdo vescovo di Dulcigno. Un umanista serbo- dalrnata del tardo Quattrocento: vita e opere (Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 1981), Appendix I, 78–146: 87. = Dušan I. Sindik and Gordana Tomović (eds.), Writers of Medieval Latinity (Писци средњовјековног латинитета), The Literature of Montenegro from the 12th to the 19th Century (Књижевност Црне Горе од XII до XIX вијека), vol. 1, edited by Dušan I. Sindik in collaboration with Gordana Tomović (Cetinje: Obod, 1996), 216–237: 221–222.

"But going by the upper road one comes upon the field of Godomin; not far from there, after crossing the river Mala Morava and leaving the fields of Brailova on the left side of the river, by way of the village of Braničevo, past the glorious temple of Resava, the tomb of kings and illustrious princes, one arrives at Niš, once, as can be seen from its ruins, a glorious city. Now it is reduced almost to a village, and it is inhabited by Turks and Bulgarians. ..." (translation by Dušan I. Sindik and Gordana Tomović) A Small Work of the Reverend Lord, Lord Martin de Segonis, a Kotoran by birth but a Serb by origin, from Novomonte, otherwise called Novo Brdo, by the grace of God Bishop of Ulcinj, To the Most Blessed Sixtus IV, Roman Pontiff. A Treatise on the Provisioning of Otranto and on the Turkish Military Order and Its Origin, II, 1. = Sindik and Tomović, Writers of Medieval Latinity, 237–261: 243.

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