Original scientific paper

On the Versification of the Latinist Franjo Božićeivć Natalis

Branimir Glavičić

Abstract

Natali’s prosody shows a fair amount of deviation from classical conventions.However, this is not everywhere a matter of ignorance or mistakes, but most frequently of audacious poetic freedoms or of attachment to medieval prosody, different from the classical.
Natali’s main literary model was Ovid, and thus it is not surprising that his hexameter is from a rhythmical point of view very close to Ovid.About 85% of his verse is made up of elegiac couplets. Occasionally he uses Sapphic strophes and hendecasyllabics, and one time, in poem XXXV, we find an unusual couplet composed of a hendecasyllable and a dactylic pentameter.

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Hrčak ID:

9044

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/9044

Publication date:

22.4.1999.

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