ABSTRACT
Ragusine, MM 4.3.68, 73, 97, F1 'Ragozine,' pirate whose head, when Barnardine refuses to be executed, is substituted for that of Claudio's. The name likely derives directly or indirectly from Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), the Adriatic seacoast town which was founded in the 7th c. BC as Ragusium. In Richard Knolle's General Historie of the Turkes (1603), which Sh. seems to have had some familiarity with in his writing of Oth, there is a 'Ragazonius' as well as an 'Hieronymus Ragazonius,' bishop of Famagusta.
