Professional paper
Stjepan Gradić - Author of the First Croatian Historiographical Work
Ivona Smolčić
; Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu
Abstract
Humanistic authors were renowned for expressing their cultural and scientific contributions through literary forms and expressions, a practice evident in the legacy of Stjepan Gradić, a polyhistor from Dubrovnik. Gradić’s contribution is not only viewed from the perspective of his individual work within the humanistic persuasion but also in the context of learning from the legacies of other authors. His introductory caption of Palmotić’s Kristijada holds a prominent position in Croatian literary historiography, alongside Natalis’s Biography of Marko Marulić, Faust Vrančić’s Biography of Antun Vrančić, and Gundulić’s Catalogue of Literarily Distinguished Dominicans. It represents the first literary biography grounded in the cultural and literary circumstances of Dubrovnik, crucial for understanding Palmotić’s body of work.
Keywords
biography; literary historiography; Kristijada; Stjepan Gradić; Junije Palmotić; Dubrovnik; literary language
Hrčak ID:
314813
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2023.
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