Professione: Poet and scientist
Luogo: Dalmatia
Autore: f.s. Dalmazia

Dominican, theologist and preacher.
Bernardo Zamagna (Zara, 1735 – Zara, 1820)
He was born on 9th December 1753, he studied in Jesuits Institute.
When he was eighteen he went to Rome to continue his studies, he was a student of Raimondo Cunich and Ruggero Boscovich.
After having finished his studies, he moved to Siena.
Poet and scientist with the passion for astronomy, when he was only twenty he published a poem written in Latin: De aucupio accipitris (The sparrowhawk hunting).
His work was soon reprinted in Germany.
Then he translated Iliad and Odyssey into Latin (Venice 1777), he commented on Hesiod and Theocritus (Parma 1768), Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius.
He renounced the professorship of Greek at the University of Milan, offered to him by Maria Theresa and he came back to Zara in 1783.
He died on 20th April 1820.