Original scientific paper
The Pisanka (1637) of the Sarajevo Writer Augustin Vlastelinović, a Metrical disciple of Marulić
Mirko Tomasović
Abstract
This is a rather large epistle by a certain Augustin Vlastelinović of Sarajevo, addressed to “my uncle”, Bishop Fra Jerolim Varešanin. We have almost no reliable information about the sender, except in the indication of the text already quoted. The writing, however, shows that Augustin Vlastelinović was an educated young Bosnian with a remarkable skill in creating double-rhymed dodecasyllabics, of the kind found in Marulić’s Judith (with the transferred quadruple rhyme). What is more, in the lexis and in the rhetoric, Vlastelinović also follows in the foot-steps of Marulić. It is known that the Judita verse was adopted by 16th century poets in Croatia, of the Split and Zadar circles, and that it was also used in the 17th century (by Pavao Ritter Vitezović for example). Vlastelinović’s Pisanka is important documentary evidence of the reception of Marulić’s Croatian poetry in Bosnia. Pisanka is also worthy of attention as a poetic text that has a convincingly original versification style with a single-rhymed decoration, which is fairly rare in Croatian poetry of that time, suggesting the possibly Baroque sensibility of this unknown poet. He probably acquired this sensibility via the Dubrovnik poets of the time.
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11913
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Publication date:
22.4.2007.
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