Original scientific paper

Twice Happy Town of Frane Petrić

Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo ; "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Pescara, Italy

Abstract

This paper deals with the etymology, and consequently with the meaning of Frane Petrić’s Happy Town (La città felice): written after Thomas More’s Utopia and before Tomaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun, Petrić’s Happy Town has its datum-point and key meaning in the etymology of the term felice. This term contains the duality constantly pointed out in Petrić’s conception: since the human being consists of body and soul, the duality is noted and repeated through various structures of this town-state. The term felice means ‘productive’, ‘successful’, ‘happy’, and it has to do with Petrić’s concept of ‘blessedness’ as well. The gradation of the meaning of the term felice explains the fact that Petrić’s town is successful-happy and happy-blessed. All the social levels are part of the productiveness > blessedness process of Petrić’s twice Happy Town.

Keywords

Frane Petrić; Happy Town; etymological approach; term felice; successfulness

Hrčak ID:

62993

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62993

Publication date:

25.10.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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