Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/yq32oh25n9
Marija Natali Zamagna (1807-1891) in the Mirror of Women’s History of the Nineteenth Century
Jelena Obradović-Mojaš
orcid.org/0000-0001-7756-8145
; Sveučilište u Dubrovniku
Abstract
On the basis of the sources kept at the State Archives in Zadar and Dubrovnik, this article casts light on the hitherto unknown data from the life of Marija Natali, wife of Mato Zamagna Tamarić (1800-1870), with whom she had three children: Nikoleta (*1826), Jeronim (1835-1913) and Marijetina (1840-1886). Marija spent her juvenile years in native Dubrovnik, and later, with her family, lived on the island of Brač, in Split, Kotor and Zadar, where her husband, member of the first generation of the abolished Dubrovnik nobility, held administrative duties. Towards the end of life they returned to the family country estate in Rijeka dubrovačka.
Marija’s life is studied through different cycles (youth, wedding, marriage, fertile period, childbirths, painful losses, old age), but also from the aspect of the position of women within a broader Mediterranean area in the nineteenth century. Emphasis is also placed on the underlying emotional world related to motherhood and infant loss. Her status within the family and social networks is also being examined, which in the nineteenth century was still marked by the traditional patrilineal relations of the Dubrovnik nobility.
The reconstructed biography of Marija Natali Zamagna helps elucidate similar lives of many other women who devoted their selves to child upbringing and continuation of the family, thus fitting into a collective image of female mentality and traditional everyday life. The insight into the life of Marija Natali Zamagna makes undivided need for the study of women’s history even more visible.
Keywords
Marija Natali Zamagna; 19th century; biography; motherhood; childbirth; marriage; Dubrovnik; Brač; Zadar
Hrčak ID:
247050
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Publication date:
20.11.2020.
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