Ivan Pastric (Ioannes Pastritius, Givanni Pastrizio, 1636-1708), Croatian theologist and Hebraist in Rome, redactor of glagolitic books, was born in Poljica near the city of Split. He was cofounder of the Academy of Council in Rome (1671), and among the first members of the famous Accademia dell’Arcadia (since 1691, only six months after its foundation). Giulio Bartolocci, his professor, claimed for Pastric to be the greatest connoisseur of Hebrew language in Rome, and a fine interpreter of Talmud. Congregation de Propaganda Fide entrusted him issuing glagolitic liturgical books (Pastric’s Glagolitic breviary was issued in 1688, and Glagolitic missal in 1706). He was very famous for his overall knowledge and humanism. So G.W. Leibniz wrote about him as knowledgeable Pastric, whose humanism I experienced (…doctissimus Pastritius, cuius humanitatem sum expertus). Pastric was a member of the first geographic society in the world: Academia cosmographica degli Argonauti. The last two years of his life he was the president of Croatian Confraternity of St Jerome in Rome.