The epitaph of the imperial gourmet is a brilliant miniature novel that works flawlessly on every level of the novel, from the plot and the applied narrative model to the characterization of the characters and the satirical edge with which it kills every
August Šenoa's historical novel, which was published in Vijenec in 1877, and was published as a book in 1878. The novel is subtitled "Historical Narrative XVI. century" so it can be seen as a historical monograph in the form of a novel.