Dubrovnik annals, No. 27, 2023.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf5ep9
All’ombra di quella bella selice: Notes on Gozze’s All-Female Dialogues on Beauty, Love, and Household Management
Francesca Maria Gabrielli
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The five dialogues composed in Italian by the Ragusan philosopher Nicolò Vito di Gozze (Nikola Vitov Gučetić), and published in the decade from 1581 to 1591, are all structured along similar lines. Serving a didactic end and constructed in accordance with a teacher-pupil communication model, the works portray a polite and erudite leisure-time philosophical conversation held in a secluded setting and conducted between two historically identifiable characters of the same sex, bound by ties of personal affection. In keeping with the innovative trend in sixteenth-century Italian literature of incorporating female interlocutors in the dialogue genre, two of the five cinquecentine under consideration thematize a woman-to-woman conversation. The topic of the literary discussions is that of beauty and love, at the time considered as particularly welcoming for the female voice. However, in the Dialogo iconomico, the manuscript version of the Croatian philosopher’s dialogue on household management (Governo della famiglia), the interlocutors are not two learned men as in the printed edition, but the very same female speakers featured in the two Neoplatonic dialogues. The aim of this essay is to offer a reading of Gozze’s representation of the female voice in his dialogues on beauty and love, as well as in the Dialogo iconomico manuscript, which exhibits a high degree of illegibility. On that account, this essay presents the results of the attempt to decipher the manuscript by comparing it to the printed edition.
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311767
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Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2023.
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