Öd Lesandra Srbljanina;<br />Od svjeh cara, cara slavna; Alesandro to svedoci; Kralj veliki svega svita<br />( What was written in song long ago; of Lesandr the Serb;<br /> A glorious emperor above all emperors). <br /><br />Ivan Gundulic (1589-1638), an early champion of<br />South Slav liberation, finds inspiration in the ancient and glorious Serbs, namely the<br />person and figure of the Serbs' greatest king, Alexander the Great, Gundulic s Lesandra<br />Srbljanina. According to P.P. Magoun Jr.
