Ivan Mažuranić

…poems of Stanko Vraz and Ivan Mažuranić. The latter was best known for his longer narrative poem Smrt Smail-age Čengića (1846; The Death of Smail Aga), written in the tradition of oral epic poetry and showing South Slavic allegiance by taking as its subject the struggle of Montenegrins against the…

…14 and 15; the poet Ivan Mažuranić (a member of the so-called Illyrian movement that sought to unite South Slavs) successfully wrote two substitute cantos, and Osman thus completed was published in Zagreb in 1844.