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“Or se’ tu quel Virgilio…” (On the dedicatee of the elegy An Autumn Flower by Father Gjergj Fishta)
Ilir Breca
; Universiteti i Prishtinës
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The “canonical” elegy as a lyrical mode of articulation, in addition to topological (lamentation, meditation and consolation) and tonal (melancholic, reflective) genre conventions, has historically also been characterized by a defined dedicatee, either as an inspirational instance for elegiac creation or a rhetorical pretext for poetic meditation on the life-death dichotomy. The poem Nji lule vjeshtet (An autumn flower) by the well-known Albanian poet Gjergj Fishta (1871–1940), being a 'canonical' elegy, leaves a strong impression with the latency of the dedicatee, when one considers the sublime glorification of the unnamed addressee, as well as Fishtian poetics which in principle does not apply crypticism. Recent archival research and philological analyses have come to the conclusion that this poem is dedicated to Fishta's old friend, the well-known Croatian poet Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević. The paper as such aims to strengthen the arguments in favor of this thesis through intertextual analysis, as well as laying out some hypotheses as to why Fishta has hesitated to make public his dedication to Kranjčević in his most personal poetry. The philological approach to the poem as well as to the secondary sources and intertextual relationships with other literary texts that creates the argumentative background for both 'dedication' and 'latentism', I believe sheds enough light on the influence of Kranjčević's poetry on Fishta's poetics, as well as on the profile of Kranjčević as a Virgil of Dantean proportions for Fishta.
Ključne riječi
elegy; addressee; Gjergj Fishta; Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević; latent dedication
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349033
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Datum izdavanja:
9.7.2026.
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