Original scientific paper

Eros in Vetranović's Istorija od Dijane

Krešimir Šimić orcid.org/0000-0001-9078-7780 ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. Osijek, Croatia

Abstract

After the discovery of the Perast and Milan manuscripts, namely the complete text of Vetranović's Istorija od Dijane, not much has been written about this dramatic work. This paper focuses on a scene near the end of the play which describes Mercury's intervention after Diana frees Cupid. The intervention of the messengers of the Gods invites a procreative interpretation of Eros, which is a certain specificity in relation to other Croatian and, to go even further, other pastorals of the sixteenth century.

Keywords

Vetranović; Istorija od Dijane; eros; mitološko-pastoralna tematika; poetika renesanse

Hrčak ID:

117762

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/117762

Publication date:

20.2.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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