There is a town in Croatia - in Dalmatia, to be more precise - to which we owe an important contribution to Latin literature. The story is as follows. Petronius' Satyricon (written probably around year 60), first European masterpiece in the genre of comic, satiric, and paradoxical adventure novel, is known to us only from fragments. The longest and most famous of these, large part of book 15, known as the Cena Trimalchionis (Feast of Trimalchio), survives in one manuscript only. This manuscript, written around 1420, is the codex Parisiensis lat. 7989 olim Traguriensis. Today it is kept in Bibliotheque Nationale de France, but it first resurfaced in Dalmatian town of Trogir (Tra), some time around 1653, in the library of Nikola Cipiko. These facts are well known in the history of Latin literature. But it was not known - until last year, that is - that some of the handwriting in the Codex Traguriensis belongs to a famous Croatian humanist from a Dalmatian city not far from Trogir. This humanist is Marko Maruli (Marcus Marulus, 1450-1524) from Split (Spalato), author of the first epic in Croatian language (Judita, 1501) and several Latin religious prose bestsellers, much read all over Europe during at least three centuries. In March 2005, Croatian philologist Bratislav Luin, familiar with Maruli's handwriting, recognized him as the scribe who used several free pages of the Codex Traguriensis to add a poem by Claudius Claudianus (4th c.); the same handwriting is also seen in numerous marginal notes all over the codex (though Maruli annotated other texts from the codex, and not the Cena). These notes are often of philological nature, aimed at restituting the corrupted text; such studious work and care invested in the codex led Luin to guess that, at least for a time, the Codex Traguriensis was property of Marko Maruli - and a treasured one at that.