Original scientific paper
Matija Frkić as an Interpreter and Critic of Tasso: »Osservationi sopra il Goffredo del Signor Torquato Tasso«
Ljerka Shiffler
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The authoress discusses Matija Frkić's (Mathias Ferchius Veglensis, Krk, January 23, 1583 - Padua, September 8, 1669) theological-philosophical-historical interpretation of Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata. Frkić was a thinker whose work was closely connected with the history of Scotism and Aristotelism.
The significance and the historical position of Frkić's work (Padua, 1642) is established as one of the possible readings of Tasso through an explication of Frkić's historiographical methodology, his interpretative process, an expoundation of the aims, theses and arguments of his non-literary, Scholastic exegesis of a literary poetic text. The exegesis focuses on the meta physical-religious plane of Tasso's work, its sources, the key terms of the poetics and the central issues of the poem, as well as on the philosophical-literary, speculative and the religious-political components of culture in the 15th and 16th centuries, and on Tasso regarded as a Catholic theological poet.
In Frkić's considerations, interpretations and critique, the authoress bas observed certain important characteristics of the Counter Reformation period, among others the currents of religious spiritualism and ideology.
In the history of European and Croatian evaluations of Tasso’s poetry, the controversies and polemics, refutations and defenses, the roles of Frkić and Petrić (Franciscus Patritius, Cres, April, 25, 1529 - Rome, February, 7, 1597), respectively, are of great importance to the Tassologists, historians of philosophy, esthetics, literature and culture, as well as to the historians of politics and Christian Church.
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81991
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Publication date:
4.12.1995.
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