Archival research is of great importance for the study of old Croatian literature, as a large part of the body of literary texts has been preserved in manuscripts to the present day, and many of them ...are kept in archives. Although at its beginnings Croatian national philology was strongly focused on archival work, in the 20th century this kind of research was abandoned, despite the fact that there was still a lot of unanalyzed material left in the archives, as well as many possibilities for correction or supplementing previous conclusions. Thus the handwritten Kajkavian songbooks, especially the secular ones, have been only partially examined. In addition, some songbooks from the Croatian State Archives have never become an object of research. This article draws attention to the importance of fundamental archival research, without which it is impossible to properly draw a picture of the Kajkavian element of old Croatian literature.
Archival research is of great importance for the study of old Croatian literature, as a large part of the body of literary texts has been preserved in manuscripts to the present day, and many of them ...are kept in archives. Although at its beginnings Croatian national philology was strongly focused on archival work, in the 20th century this kind of research was abandoned, despite the fact that there was still a lot of unanalyzed material left in the archives, as well as many possibilities for correction or supplementing previous conclusions. Thus the handwritten Kajkavian songbooks, especially the secular ones, have been only partially examined. In addition, some songbooks from the Croatian State Archives have never become an object of research. This article draws attention to the importance of fundamental archival research, without which it is impossible to properly draw a picture of the Kajkavian element of old Croatian literature.
This paper is aimed at scrutinizing emblematic and iconic functions of doves in love poetry. Despite the fact that love is a complex emotion both in literary and psychological sense, the main ...analytical emphasis will be put on the literary codification of a simple (amiable) type of love – incarnated in the symbol of dove – within various cultural layers. In addition to this, it will be argued that a dove or a pair of pigeons as literary topoi are very common in popular and oral literature as opposed to the literature with the certain authorship. The aforesaid literary image can frequently be found in Kajkavian manuscripts of love poetry which originated from the 18th and 19th centuries. Moreover, it will be demonstrated that this image is still present in a popular music of the 20th and 21st century.
In the article’s introduction, the author points to the history of the book as one of the younger sub-disciplines and to its relevance for literary history. This fact is particularly important for ...old Dubrovnik where the first printing house was opened only in 1783. In the middle part of the article, certain aspects of manuscript culture in early modern Dubrovnik are studied. The author explains why until the 19th century a large part of the Ragusan literature was circulated in manuscripts and what the advantages of the manuscript compared to the printed book are. The author reminds that manuscripts carried out the function of printed books and indicates that printed books were frequently copied by hand.
In the article’s introduction, the author points to the history of the book as one of the younger sub-disciplines and to its relevance for literary history. This fact is particularly important for ...old Dubrovnik where the first printing house was opened only in 1783. In the middle part of the article, certain aspects of manuscript culture in early modern Dubrovnik are studied. The author explains why until the 19th century a large part of the Ragusan literature was circulated in manuscripts and what the advantages of the manuscript compared to the printed book are. The author reminds that manuscripts carried out the function of printed books and indicates that printed books were frequently copied by hand.
The main presumption of this paper is that parody and travesty, which rest on strongly empasized intertextual relations, have always been realized within the literary mature and developed cultural ...environments. As far as the literature in the Croatian language is concerned, the only example of this kind of environment has been the Ragusan one. By drawing on the poems Avdijenca, Prskanja and Prodece of Antun Gleđević from the beginning of the 18th century and Marin Zlatarić's poem Pisaocu ružne Periegesi from the begenning of the s 19th century, it can be stated that parodical, travestied and burlesque procedures have often been skillfully combined predominantly in the function of the satirical attack on the real persons. Due to the modest aesthetic impression of the mentioned poems, it might be concluded that 18th century Ragusan literature has lacked important authors, works and genres. Consequently, it has not been able to produce parodies and travesties of the literary masterpieces which might be labelled aesthetically demanding.
Ime Fausta Vrančića danas se pojavljuje u različitim kontekstima: po njemu su nazvane škole, jedna nagrada, jedna izdavačka kuća; motiv padobranca – homo volans – pojavljuje se na različitim ...predmetima, od torbi i podmetača za čaše do kravata i zidnih dekora. Nije to nimalo neobično jer je Vrančić doista iznimno zahvalna figura za “brendiranje”. Njegovi su život i djelovanje toliko zanimljivi sami po sebi te je pred njim teško ostati ravnodušan i nezainteresiran.
Nakon što se činilo da su se Stari pisci hrvatski – najstarija i za hrvatsku dopreporodnu književnost do danas najvažnija edicija – ugasili (i to ne zato što bi nedostajalo građe), nedavno se u toj ...seriji pojavio novi naslov. Nakon stanke od 14 godina, odnosno od 2004., kada je objavljena sada predzadnja, 43. knjiga u nizu, izašao je sada 44. svezak, koji donosi djelo Jurja Habdelića Pervi otca našega Adama greh. Kako stoji ispod naslova, knjiga je nastala na temelju prijepisa Milana Ratkovića.
The paper brings forth several observations about two secular Kajkavian songbooks written by the same hand. They are Pjesmarica Nikole Šafrana (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Archives, sg. I a ...98) and Canticum cytharaedorum cytarizantium cum cytaris suis (National and University Library in Zagreb, sg. R 3631). Even though the songbooks are quite extensive, so far they have not been thoroughly analysed nor written about as a whole; rather, scholarly attention was directed to individual songs, mostly those that were repeated in several manuscripts. Some songs were written about in the attempt to ascertain or confirm their author, some because they revolve around a historical event (e.g. the Zrinski-Frankopan Conspiracy), while some served as a template for stylistic analysis. Unlike such approach, in which the songbooks are always understood as a mere, almost accidental collection of randomly gathered compositions, this paper emphasizes that songbooks should be studied as unique, ordered wholes. Their compiler was obviously guided by the desire to offer a rounded collection. The hypothesis that the compiler was a person who continuously and seriously engaged in Kajkavian lyric before the National Revival can be further testified to by several manuscripts from the State Archives written by the same hand.
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