Don Dominik Gianuizzi (Ivanišević)

was a member and the Secretary of Split’s Agricultural Academy which was run by Radoš Michieli Vitturi. As the records say, he was … a monk of the Cathedral of Split … and Prefect in Kaštel Lukšić. He tried his skill in the writing of the ‘’agrarian catechism’’, whose printing was initiated by the Academy of Zadar. Regardless of some of its flaws, Gianuizzi’s manual was well received and published in Croatian at the expense of the Senate in Venice in 1792.

Under the decision taken by Andrea Memmo, ‘’prefects were to instruct the people in their mother tongue in reading, writing, mathematics and in the basics of agriculture in order to improve the severely underdeveloped crop farming, viticulture and animal production.’’. The Catechism has twelve chapters. At the end of each chapter, it offers four didactical verses related to agricultural work.