Book of Judith
Marulić also wrote the epic poem "Judita", which retells the events of the "Book of Judith". The poem contains 2126 dodecasyllabic lines, with caesurae after the sixth syllable, composed in six books ("libar"s). The linguistic basis of the book is Split Čakavian speech and the Štokavian lexis, and the Glagolitic original of the legend; the work thus foreshadows the unity of Croatian language.