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Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia : Revue publiée par les Sections romane, italienne et anglaise de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Zagreb, Vol. 60 No. -, 2015.

Original scientific paper

A Polemical Piece by Alberto Fortis: Memoria sopra l’isola di Corzola

Smiljka Malinar

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Abstract

Memoria sopra l’isola di Corzola, a report that the natural historian and travel writer
Alberto Fortis delivered at a meeting of the Accademia di Scienze Lettere e Arti in
Padua on December 12, 1782, which was published by Professor Žarko Muljačić,
details Fortis’ stay on the island of Korčula. The reason for this stay was the theories
of Neapolitan scholar Ciro Minervini on the allegorical meaning of Homer’s epics
and the volcanic origin of Korčula. In this paper Fortis’ report will be presented as a
polemical and didactic text and will be supplemented with certain information about
the circumstances in which it was written.

Keywords

Alberto Fortis; Korčula; Ciro Saverio Minervini; Homer; Ulysses; allegorical interpretation of myths; vulcanological theses; autooptical examination

Hrčak ID:

168204

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/168204

Publication date:

13.6.2016.

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