Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.22586/ss.19(2019).1.3
Blagojević’s Poet–Traveller (Pjesnik–putnik, 1771) in the Context of the “Catholic Enlightenment”
Goranka Šutalo
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Sažetak
The visit of Joseph II to Slavonia in 1768 was the primary reason why Blagojević wrote his only original work, the poem Pjesnik-putnik (1771), on the basis of which he has been described in Croatian literary historiography as one of the most distinct representatives of Josephinism in Slavonian literature. The first two cantos of Pjesnik-putnik are encomiums on Joseph II and Maria Theresa; in the remaining four cantos, Blagojević discussed and described the social conditions of 18th century Slavonia. In Pjesnik-putnik Blagojević praised Matija Antun Relković and criticized the anonymous friar, i.e. the Slavonian Tamburitza player who unreasonably lashed out at the writer of the Slavonian truths presented in Satir iliti divjem čoviku (Dresden 1762, Osijek 1779), a work which is in literary historiography usually seen as a paradigmatic example of the Croatian (literary) Enlightenment.
Blagojević also praised the priest Vid Došen who was the parish administrator in Dubovik near Slavonski Brod and wrote Jeka planine (Mountain’s Echo) (1767); with this poem Došen had defended Relković. In Pjesnik-putnik Blagojević praised Maria Theresa and Joseph II, referred positively to the reforms of Joseph II and presented himself as a supporter of enlightened absolutism and of the policy of the State Church. Even though Croatian historiography has given fairly good reviews of the poem Pjesnik-putnik as well as of Blagojević’s translations, it seems to me that the enlightenment aspect has still not been explained in detail and comes down to a few basic theses - Blagojević is the most outstanding Slavonian representative of Josephinism; his attitudes are somewhat more radical than Relković’s (for instance his very strong criticism of the Franciscans); nevertheless, he is still far from western Illuminism (atheism and deism), hence, his enlightenment is rather “moderate”, referring to domestic circumstances or, in the words of Rafo Bogišić, a Croatian Enlightenment. Such a clarification is not precise enough, given that it focuses primarily on what the (Croatian) Enlightenment is not (or what it lacks to become Enlightenment), rather than what it truly is. In my opinion, a potentially more precise definition of the so called “Croatian version of the (literary) Enlightenment” in this matter (primarily in the example of Adam Tadija Blagojević) would be the term Catholic Enlightenment. Through Viennese intellectual circles, particularly those of Joseph von Sonnenfels, Blagojević might have come into contact with the ideas of the Catholic Enlightenment that was spreading throughout Austria under the influence of Muratori’s reformed Catholicism. Hence, if Josephinism (along with Jansenism), according to the insights of Harm Klueting, is considered a specific and key component of the Catholic Enlightenment in Austria, I consider it fully justified to interpret Blagojević’s poem from the above mentioned aspect of a broader concept.
Ključne riječi
Adam Tadija Blagojević; Pjesnik-putnik (Poet-Traveller); Catholic Enlightenment; reformed Catholicism; Theresianism; Josephinism; Croatian literary Enlightenment
Hrčak ID:
231391
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Datum izdavanja:
31.10.2019.
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