The anthology Vartal by compiler and humanist Petar Lucić has been developed in the period of 20 years. Lucić, well-versed in humanism and inspired by knowledge and desire to preserve written Croatian word of many Dalmatian writers, compiled an anthology which has survived to our age incomplete with hundred and thirty-one texts. Vartal is a treasure chest of medieval and (pre-)renaissance literature of many authors (Marko Marulić, Šiško Menčetić, Mavro Vetranović, etc.) and genres. The Middle Ages is the time of Christianity, the time of treasuring many works of Croatian authors in anthologies and books of poems, the time of friars and clergy, the time of repentance and absolution. Lucić seeks for religious texts of the time which he writes down in his anthology. Vartal is dedicated to mothers and sisters nuns as encouragement on their life path of faith and love of God, Jesus and Virgin Mary. Each reader of Vartal can find a didactic and moral message in texts in prose and verse, of different genres such as prayers, poems, presentations, monologic poems, translations of Latin hymns, epics, translations of psalms, stories, legends, apocalyptic prose and prose paraphrases of medieval Latin hymns. In Vartal, the Renaissance can be seen in texts which mostly deal with current problems of the people in which you can witness to how true religious overwhelmment can in given moments be in the service of patriotism.