Review article

Armin Pavić, Franjo Marković and Gundulić's Osman

Dubravko Jelčić ; HAZU, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

In the annual school report of the Požega Gymnasium for 1870/71, Armin Pavić published an essay »Kako se je izgubilo 14. i 15. pjevanje Gundulićeva ‘Osmana’« [On the missing 14th and 15th cantos of Gundulić’s Osman], which soon drew the attention of the cultural public. By assuming that while Gundulić was still alive »pretrgnuta nit među šesnaestim i prvimi pjevanji« [the continuity between the sixteenth and the first cantos was broken], Pavić claims that »prije godine 1622. bio spjevao epos kojemu bijaše sadržaj vojevanje kralja Vladislava proti Turkom« [before 1622 Gundulić had composed an epic which described the war of King Vladislav against the Turks], and this epic he later intended to incorporate into his second epic, written after 1622, and that, in his opinion, would be Osman. Death prevented him from accomplishing this idea.
This assumption gave rise to contradictory views and a lively polemic launched by Franjo Marković, whose thesis found numerous followers and finally gained general recognition. This marked the first scientifically grounded polemic in the history of Croatian literature.

Keywords

Armin Pavić; Franjo Marković; Gundulić’s Osman; scientific polemic

Hrčak ID:

136549

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/136549

Publication date:

15.2.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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