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===Family history=== [[File:Antun Vrancic by Martin Rota.jpg|right|thumb|140px|Fausto's uncle, Antonio, engraved by [[Martin Rota]].]] Fausto was born in [[Šibenik|Sebenico]] (Šibenik), [[Venetian Dalmatia]] into the Croatian family of count Michele/Mihovil Vrančić (Veranzio) and Katarina [[Berislavić family of Trogir|Berislavić]].<ref name="Soric">{{Cite journal |last=Sorić |first=Diana |date=2014 |title=Obiteljski korespondenti Antuna Vrančića (1504.-1573.): Biografski podaci i lokacija rukopisne građe |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/193830 |journal=Povijesni prilozi |volume=33 |issue=47 |pages=41–42, 44–45}}</ref> His father was a Latin poet, while his uncle was [[Antun Vrančić]],<ref name="Soric"/><ref name="Fortis">{{cite book|author=Abbe Alberto Fortis|title=Travels Into Dalmatia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBg90lSgkQQC&pg=PA157|date=2007|orig-year=1768|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-046-0|page=157}}</ref> [[archbishop of Esztergom]] (1504–1573), a [[diplomat]] and a civil servant, who was in touch with [[Erasmus]] (1465–1536), [[Philip Melanchthon]] (1497–1560), and [[Nikola IV Zrinski]] (1508–1566), who took care of Fausto's education and later travelled with him during some of Antun's travels through [[Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867)|Hungary]] and in the [[Republic of Venice]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Thomas Blackwell|author2=John Mills|title=Memoirs of the Court of Augustus: Continued, and Completed, from the Original Papers of the Late Thomas Blackwell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eE8TpJttyhgC&pg=PA239|year=1763|publisher=A. Millar|page=239}}</ref> Faust had a brother Kazimir (1557-1637).<ref name="Soric"/> While the family's main residence was in the city of Šibenik, they owned a big summer house on [[List of islands of Croatia|island]] of [[Prvić]], in place of Šepurine, a neighboring place to Prvić-Luka (where he is buried in the local church). The [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] castle that was used by the Vrančić family as summer residence is now in possession of the Draganić family. Later in his life, in 1578, Fausto was married to Marieta Zar with whom had a daughter Alba-Roza, and possibly a son, who died young.<ref name="Soric"/>
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