Original scientific paper

The Citizens of Ston in Antun Sasin’s »Malahna komedija od pira« (Tiny Feast Comedy)

Slavica Stojan ; Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Abstract

In this short dramatic piece Sasin, a writer ever up to date, has presented several vivid and realistic pictures of everyday Ston life in the late years of the 16th century. Fourteen citizens of Ston herein mentioned did actually live in Ston and Mali Ston of the time and can be traced in the office books Lamenta Stagni, Testamenta notaria and Pacta matrimonialia. Thus with much certainty it was quite possible to date the work around 1580. Sasin himself kept the office books classified according to subjects and record of these characters can be found in some indictments, punishments or testimonies written down by his own hand. Anonymous citizens of Ston with whom he shared the doom of province life found their place in Sasin’s work expressing its local colour and feeling.

Keywords

Antun Sasin; Ston; comedy

Hrčak ID:

241190

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/241190

Publication date:

20.6.1990.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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