Colloquia Maruliana ..., Vol. 10 , 2001.
Original scientific paper
Traces of everyday Life in the Works of Marko Marulić
Nevenka Bezić-Božanić
Abstract
Caught in the pincers of Turkish in roads and the difficult economic conditions resulting from Venetian pressures in the second half of the 15th and in the 16h century, the life of Split and its people was increasingly difficult and impoverished. For this reason, the Renaissance could not develop in its full glory in the city, but left only modest traces, mostly under the aegis of the Church. Only the occasional Renaissance relief ornament has been preserved on the houses within the old city centre, and the use objects that comprise the quotidian disappeared in the darkness of the coming centuries. For this reason the slightest description of clothing, jewellery, furniture, fabric or various other household items that fill out and constitute the life of everyman can be found today only in the writing of the time. Carefully reading the work of Marko Marulić, we can find precious clues that together with the terse and only partially preserved archival sources reveal the everyday life of Split in the time of Marulić’s life.
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Publication date:
22.4.2001.
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