Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/moxpjhw4km
Antun Kanižlić and Vincenzo Basile: Kanižlić’s Works in Dalmatia in the 19th Century
Mijo Korade
orcid.org/0000-0001-6464-8621
; Fakultet hrvatskih studija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper intents to define to what extent and in which fashion were Kanižlić’s works present in Dalmatia and Southern Croatia in general in the 19th century. A number of Kanižlić’s poems (e.g. Pismu novu svi pivajmo) had already been included in the mission book / the book of poems by missionaries from Rijeka, entitled Knižica duhovna (Trnava 1768). The prayer book Bogoljubnost molitvena by Antun Kanižlić had its third edition published in 1806 by the Zadar printer Battara. Sicilian Jesuit Vincenzo Basile, who together with Antonio Ayala began his missionary’s visits in 1852 – first in Dalmatia and later across Croatia, included Kanižlić’s prayers in the third edition of his booklet of spiritual contemplations, entitled Razmišljajte ova dobro oca Bartola Baudrand (Zadar 1854). An appendix with a separate pagination, entitled Kratka promišljanja i molitve oca Antuna Kanižlića, was included in the fourth edition of the same work – Razmišljajte ova dobro (Rome 1865). This appendix was also published as a separate booklet (12°, 135 pages), which included thoughts for every day of the month, daily prayers, liturgical prayers for the holy mass, confession and communion prayers, and prayers to particular saints; all of these were taken from the prayer book Bogoljubnost molitvena.
Basile further prepared a new edition of Kanižlić’s work Primogući i sardce nadvladajući uzroci s kripostnimih podpomočmah za ljubiti Gospodina Isukarsta Spasitelja našega... (Zagreb 1760), with a new title and in line with the new orthography: Važni uzroci s kojih Gospodina Isukrsta Spasitelja našega nada sve ljubiti moramo i njeka spasonosna sredstva kojim se ova ljubav probuditi može (Miroslav Kraljević, Požega 1864). Basile shortened Kanižlić’s foreword and added daily prayers. Italian Jesuit Cesare Luigi Ferrari published a prayer book entitled Blago duhovno ili molitve nadarene svetiem proštenjima... (Verona 1865) for a society from Dubrovnik. This book includes Kanižlić’s prayers and contemplations, as well as those of other earlier writers (B. Kašić, I. M. Matijašević, et al.). Molitvenik za katolička poslanstva po jugoslovinskih deržavah, a manual for Dalmatian missionaries, which had been published in five editions between 1863 and 1902, is in many ways dependent on and connected to Kanižlić’s prayer book Bogoljubnost molitvena.
Keywords
Antun Kanižlić; Vincenzo Basile; Dalmatia; 19th century; prayer books; missionary’s visits.
Hrčak ID:
235576
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Publication date:
31.12.2019.
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