Ján Hollý (born 1785 in Borský Svätý Mikuláš - died 1849 in Dobrá Voda) - a poet, translator, catholic priest. One of the greatest Slovak and Slavic poets and the key representative of the classicism in Slovak literature. He has created the substantial part of his works in the village of Madunice, where he liked to write poems in the Mlíč woods under an old robust oak. He started his writer career by doing the translations of antique poets, with the most important one being the translation of Vergilio's Eneada, which became a template also for his own composition Svätopluk...