At the very beginning this article deals with life and work of former Jesuit Franciscus Xaverius Verneda (1736-1829), the Latin author from Rijeka. It goes on outlining basic data on his laudatory Latin elegy, which credits the emperor Charles VI, queen Mary Theresia and József Mailáth with a great economic blossoming of Rijeka during the 18th century. In the end the entire elegy is transcribed and translated in original meter.

Franciscus Xaverius Verneda; József Mailáth de Székhely; Croatian Latinist literature – laudatory elegy