Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.55.4.5
The Comedy Gli Amori del Capitano Niccolo Ivulić .... in the Dispute Over the Autorship and the Impoverished Image of Spirituality of Baroque Makarska. An Approach to 18th-century Comedy of Makarska with a Reference to the 2018 Edition
Marinko Tomasović
orcid.org/0000-0003-4148-4470
; Makarska City Museum, Makarska, Croatia
Abstract
The paper proves that the comedy Gli Amori del Capitano Niccolo Ivulić.... (The Loves of Captain Nikola Ivulić) by an unknown author from Makarska from the 18th century, preserved in a transcript from 1873 and published by Buzdo of the Makarska branch of Matica Hrvatska in 2018, was edited according to the Belgrade theatrical adaptation by Anton Kolendić. With the piled vulgarities and curses, it just draws on the original text. In accordance with the intention of Yugoslavism, ideologically imposed on Croatian spirituality and culture, it is attributed to the priest Klement Grubišić (1725-1773), which was accepted also by the Matica’s publication. The paper points out that the Croatian cultural and scientific public has not accepted such authorship, but has spoken of an unknown writer. The Matica’s edition does not state whose comedy text was printed, nor does it state the deposit of transcript in the National and University Library in Zagreb. In its Preface it is clear that there are no references to the works, which points to dubiousness of Grubišić’s authorship of the comedy (D. Berić, S. Prosperov Nobak, V. Deželjin). Deficiencies are also evident in the poorly arranged and factually unconvincing Epilogue, especially in the depiction of the spirituality of Makarska in the 18th century. It reveals a nationally indifferent approach to unquestionable categories such as Croatian literature and culture.
Keywords
Makarska comedy; transcript of the work; Klement Grubišić; Petar and Anton Kolendić; Makarska of the 18th century
Hrčak ID:
249775
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Publication date:
12.1.2021.
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