Original scientific paper
Representations of hayduks in the works of Alberto Fortis, Ivan Lovrić and Vladimir Ardalić
Ivan Mimica
Abstract
The author gives a brief overview of the basic features of banditry in Dalmatian Zagora in the 18th and 19 century. The war-confl icts betweenVenetians and Ottoman ended in 1718.. That year marks the establishing of the fi nal border between the two states, and the beginning of a long period of stable relations, trade and cooperation.
However, intensive brigandry continuedeven after Venetian rule was replaced by the French, and the latter by the Austrian. Two eiighteenth-century atuhors offern account of brigandry (hajduštvO): the abbot Alberto Gortis in his Viaggio in Dalmazia, and his younger contemporary, an educator from Sinj Ivan Lovrić in his Travels of Alberto Fortis in Dalmazia and the Life of Stanislav Sočivica.The latter work is composed as critical evaluation of Fortis’ work, and published in 1776. In his studies composed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Vladimir Ardalic does not focus specifi cally on
brigands (hayduks). Instead he includes brief accounts of brigands and brigandry as part of oral memory in the region that he records. In this work we present and analyz Fortis, Lovrić and Ardalić’s records on brigands and their thoughts about the perceived heroism of brigands, and the causes of brigandry in this region.
Keywords
brigands and brigandry; Alberto Fortis and Ivan Lovric; Zagorje Dalmatia; Vladimir Ardalić; Bukovica 18th and 19 century
Hrčak ID:
118059
URI
Publication date:
8.5.2012.
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