LUCIC, Ivan Trogiranin (Lucius, Johannes), (September 1604, Trogir - January 11, 1679, Rome), lawyer, historian, cartographer. He gained his first formal education at municipal school in Trogir, and then continued studies at Seminarium Romanum in Rome, where he stayed from 1618 to 1620. In 1628 he finished studies of philosophy, mathematics, Greek, political sciences and literature. He received a PhD in ecclesiastical and civil law in Padua in 1630 and started working as a municipal magistrate and an official of the municipal administration. For the purposes of further vocational development he stayed in Rome from 1632 until 1635 when he returned to Trogir. In 1654 he again left Trogir with the intention to finish his works in Rome, far away from Venetian intrigues. On his way to Rome he met ban Petar Zrinski in Venice. During his stay in Italy Lucic kept continually in touch with his friends in Croatia who provided him with archival data. A prominent Croatian historian and the founder of critical history writing in Croatia, Lucic was one of the founders of the first scientific journal Giornale de'letterati. In 1662 he finished De regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae, a work which, though he started working on it in Croatia, due to the difficulties brought about by the English-Holland war and an epidemics of the plague, was published in 1666 in Amsterdam. The work was published in the original form, as Lucic had it in mind, in its third edition which contained all six maps, corrections and supplements as well as a dedication to Petar Zrinski on the sixth map Illyricum hodiernum. In the supplement to Rerum Dalmaticarum scriptores Lucic published a collection of narrative sources, and enclosed geneological tables and six historical-geographical maps, which made up the first Croatian atlas. In Memorie istoriche di Traugurio ora detto Trau (Historical Records on Trogir) published in 1673 he issued a history of his home town to the middle of the 15th century accompanied with an account of contemporary historical developments in neighbouring towns, and very often in the whole region of Dalmatia. Besides segments of Peutinger map this work contains his works, namely maps Teritorii di Trau e Spalato and TRAU. In the following year he published the same text under the title Historia di Dalmatia - Et in particolare delle Citta di Trau, Spalatore e Sebenico and a collection of epigraphic monuments Inscriptiones Dalmatiae. He prepared for publication Statuta et reformationes civitatis Trogurii (Statute of the town of Trogir) but the work was published as late as 1708 because of the fact that Venice placed a ban on its publication. He was a member of the board, vice president (1662) and president (1663) of St. Jerome's Society in Rome.

Map of the Trogir area by Ivan Lucic Map of the Illyricum by Ivan Lucic