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Original scientific paper

“No Harm in Hearing it all”: Medicean Attitude to the Conspiracy of Marin Držić

Lovro Kunčević orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-9654-6969 ; Croatian academy of sciences and arts, Institute for historical scineces, Dubrovnik, Croatia


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Abstract

This article highlights a most recent discovery of an unknown conspiratorial letter of Marin Držić as well as some comments on Držić traced in the correspondence of Duke Cosimo I Medici with his secretary, Bartolomeo Concino, in the State Archives of Florence (Archivio di Stato di Firenze). Aiming to interpret Držić’s conspiracy in the light of new evidence, the article affords transcriptions, translation and commentary of the documents. The recently discovered material indicates that Držić, contrary to the traditional interpretation, was not ignored by the Medici administration, and provides the basis for the reconstruction of the attitude of the Florentine court towards Držić’s plot, his contacts there, along with an array of new details on Držić’s understanding of his own political project.

Keywords

Dubrovnik; Florence; Renaissance; Marin Držić; Cosimo I Medici; conspiracy

Hrčak ID:

31887

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/31887

Publication date:

27.11.2008.

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