Skoči na glavni sadržaj

Izvorni znanstveni članak

https://doi.org/10.21857/mwo1vczd0y

Latin Translation of Marmontel’s Novel Bélisaire (1767) by Mike Horvath, a Priest from Burgenland (Belisarius, 1772)

Jelena Puškarić ; Hrvatsko vojno učilište “Dr. Franjo Tuđman”, Zagreb, Hrvatska


Puni tekst: hrvatski pdf 569 Kb

str. 147-175

preuzimanja: 355

citiraj


Sažetak

In 1767 Jean-François Marmontel (1723-1799) published a “novel” under the title Bélisaire. Much more a socio-philosophical treaty well anchored in its century’s philosophy than an adventure novel, Marmontel’s Bélisaire was an immediate success in his time and inspired many a literary follower in decades to come. Summing up the key ideas of its time, namely freedom of thought in religious matters, civil toleration (the novel’s strongest point, the most criticized by its opponents as well as the most fiercely defended by its author), implementation of an enlightened model of monarchy, a most wished for reform of the tax system and, on a larger scale, of various other social institutions, Marmontel’s work quickly gained popularity, which was largely due to his author’s triumph over the Sorbonne theological party. The leitmotiv (partly legendary and partly based on available historical facts) of Justinian’s old general, whose conduct was synonym of nothing but impeccable righteousness, was not unknown to the European literary pre-Enlightenment production, though back then the traditional plot lacked the novelty elements with which Marmontel endowed his Bélisaire. In this lineage we can place a play entitled Belisarius or Elpidia (1703) by the Ragusan poet Antun Gleđević. But, it was primarily the ideological filament of Marmontel's novel that inspired the Croatian priest Miho (Michael) Horvath (1733-1810) to publish a Latin version of Marmontel's text (most probably in 1772). A second Latin version of the text (published by a Vienna typographer Ludwig – Aloysius – Doll) appeared in 1806.

Ključne riječi

Antun Gleđević; Bélisaire; Croatian neo-Latin literature; Enlightenment; Miho (Michael) Horvath; Jean-François Marmontel

Hrčak ID:

220283

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/220283

Datum izdavanja:

27.12.2018.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

Posjeta: 1.068 *