Serafino Cerva (Croatian: Serafin Crijević; 1696–1759),[1] also known as Saro, was a Dalmatian Italian author of Ragusan Library,[2][3] the first encyclopedia in the Dalmatian language, which comprised 435 biographies of ancient men and of the "Athens of the Adriatic" (Ragusa).[4] He translated some minor local literary works into Italian. He belonged to the Cerva family.
^Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1843). The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 186–. ... Serafino Cerva, who has written on the ecclesiastical history of Ragusa ; Benedetto Orsinich, author of a genealogical ...
^Rivista dalmatica (in Italian). Associazione nazionale dalmata di Roma. 1994. pp. 34–. ... in Dalmazia, di un'enciclopedia letteraria: Serafino Cerva (1696-1759) il cui cognome viene tradotto Crijevié dagli storiografi della ... L'opera comprende ben 435 biografie per scrivere le quali il Cerva consumò quattro anni della sua vita.
