Original scientific paper
Paulus Ritter’s “False” Etymologies in Plorantis chroatiae saeculae duo
Violeta Moretti
orcid.org/0000-0002-2618-0076
; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Igor Grbić
; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Abstract
Pavao Ritter Vitezović (Senj 1652–Vienna 1713), internationally known
as Paulus Ritter, was an early modern age Croatian scholar and poet. His
Plorantis Croatiae saecula duo from 1703 is a historical “epic” poem reviewing the previous two centuries of Croatian history, marked by
Turkish invasion. The poem is both historical and poetic, and this article
aims to contribute to an understanding of the extent to which it is the
latter. It examines a dozen of the poem’s toponymic etymologies, so
far neglected, showing the various ways they were deliberately used
for poetic aims, rather than as academic etymologies to be understood
literally.
Keywords
Paulus Ritter; toponym; poetry; poetic etymology; history; scholarly etymology; figure of speech.
Hrčak ID:
220714
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2019.
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