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The Woman Philosopher Maruša Gundulić

Luka Boršić orcid.org/0000-0001-7432-7880 ; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska

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The intention of this text is to show that if the two dialogues, the Dialogue on Beauty (Dialogo della bellezza) and the Dialogue on Love (Dialogo d’amore) from 1581, written by Nikola Vitkov Gučetić (Nicolò Vito di Gozze), are read exactly as the writer intended, that is, “in Platonic spirit,” then these texts can be understood as a display of the philosophical thoughts and arguments of the interlocutors, that is Maruša Gundulić (Maria Gondola) and Cvijeta Zuzorić (Fiore Zuzzori). Such an understanding of the text is supported by a feminist approach to the history of philosophy; the “feminist” here does not denote an ideological commitment, but a project that aims to show that there have been women philosophers in history. This hermeneutic key allows us a deeper understanding of the letter-epistle written by Maruša Gundulić in defense of Cvijeta Zuzorić, and in extenso all women, in 1582, and published in 1584 and, in a revised version, in 1585. It testifies about the open-mindedness and progressiveness of the Gučetić-Gundulić couple in the context of their time: they dared to a thitherto unprecedented performative act – to publish husband’s text under the auspices of wife’s introduction.
Finally, using the same hermeneutic key and carefully reading the traces scattered in the text of the Dialogue on Beauty and the Dialogue on Love, we conclude that the role of Maruša Gundulić in these dialogues can be understood as the one of a “female Socrates.” Postulating the distinction between “writer” and “author” based on the standard interpretation of Plato’s early, so-called Socratic dialogues, we see no reason not to suppose that the thoughts and arguments, which Nikola Gučetić wrote in these dialogues as proclaimed by the dialogue character Maruša Gundulić are indeed authored by Maruša Gundulić, the historical person and a woman philosopher.

Ključne riječi

Maruša Gundulić / Maria Gondola; Nikola Vitkov Gučetić / Nicolò Vito di Gozze; the Renaissance dialogue; woman philosopher

Hrčak ID:

253485

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/253485

Datum izdavanja:

20.12.2020.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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