The topic of Turks appeared in Croatian literature already mid-15th century. They were mostly written about in anti-Turk speeches in Latin by Frano Marcelo, Bernardin Zane, Fran Trankvil Andreis and others. Juraj Divnić and Marko Marulić wrote about the great Ottoman threat in epistles addressed to popes and powerful European rulers. The topic of Turks was common in travel books and Bartol Đurđević describes the events he acquired at the time of his captivity. In the Komentari o mojem vremenu, Ludovik Crijević Tuberon describes the history and characteristics of various peoples: the Turks, Hungarians, Albanians, Czechs and others. The author writes about inhumane Turkish relations toward the prisoners, friendship with the Ottomans and the conflicts in the Christian-Christian camps. He positively describes the Ottoman leniency towards the conquered, praising their religiosity, hospitality and loyalty to the Sultan. Writers of the 16th and 17th centuries were also occupied by the theme of the Turks so they wrote about them in dramatic texts, epics, poems and political poems and historiographies. In Robinja by Hanibal Lucic the Turkish world did not signify only danger but also real neighborhood. So the drama describes cooperation with the Turks and good neighborly relations. Epic texts describe actual historical events. The Croatian zriniades discuss the Battle of Szigeth and praise the heroism of Nikola Šubic Zrinski, while the historical framework for the epic Dubrovnik Ponovljen by Jaketa Palmotić Dionorić is the story of Dubrovnik's envoys and their departure to Istanbul after the big earthquake. In Osman, Ivan Gundulić talks about the young Sultan Osman, his defeat in the Batlle of Chocim and the dissatisfaction of his army that overthrew him and eventually killed him.