Friar Filip Grabovac was a priest, professor, preacher, military chaplain, poet, and a prose writer. As a boy he went to the Franciscan monastery in Visovac. Life among the Fran- ciscans taught him communion and he himself felt called to become a priest, so he went to a monastery in Zaostog where he was ordained. As a member of the Province of the Most Holy Redeemer, he was sent to perform his priestly duty as a military chaplain in the territory of the Venetian Republic. That is how he got to know the life of Croatian soldiers and officers firsthand. As a great patriot, he was touched by the fate of his soldiers, so in his work Cvit razgovora he emphasizes how Croatian soldiers are oppressed and how they fight for others. He expressed all his thoughts publicly in his work and he wrote about the politics of his time, which did not suit the current authorities. He was accused for only a few verses, for which no one sought an explanation, only a condemnation, his life ends tragically, and he becomes a historical figure who will be written about for years. Cvit razgovora was written in two parts, in the first part he wrote about morality and religion, and in the second part he wrote about secular topics and folk history, thus becoming the initiator of the Enlightenment, where he deviates from tradition and writes about secular topics. Grabovac belongs to the 18th century and the influence of the Franciscans can be felt in all his work, but it is felt the most in his piece in Shtokavian ikavian dialect (one of the most spread Croatian dialects) which becomes a turning point in the expansion of the dia- lect’s literary language. Franciscans played a major role in the process of standardization of the Croatian literary language.