Colloquia Maruliana ..., Vol. 5 , 1996.
Original scientific paper
Dante, Kalićević, Marulić
Ivo Frangeš
Abstract
The author brings forward some textual details that connect the great Italian poet, the founder of the Croatian literature and the writer of the first Croatian doubly rhymed dodecasyllabic verses, Džonko Kalićević from Dubrovnik. In Marulić’s Croatian poem Lipo prigovaranje razuma i človika (The Noble Conversation between Reason and Man) the theme of consoling persecuted man is expressed in the thought that the world is home to all mankind as the water is home to all fish. The same thought can be found in the VI. chapter of Dante’s De vulgari eloquentia, who shares with Marulić (in the mentioned poem) and with Kalićević (in his only surviving fragment, consisting of three lines) the image of the shipwrecked who swims ashore, saving only his bare life.Besides, both Marulić and Kalićević express it using almost identical words, which leads to the conclusion that Marulić was acquainted with the verses of his predecessor from Dubrovnik. Also, these tiny particulars prove that Marulić was an excellent connoisseur of Croatian as well as of European literary tradition, both of which he appropriated and continued.
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Publication date:
22.4.1996.
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