Filologija, No. 67, 2016.
Original scientific paper
Variant Dedications in the Second Edition of Marin Držić’s Tirena (1607)
Ivan Lupić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4208-6362
; Department of English, Stanford University
Abstract
This essay studies the two dedicatory epistles normally associated with the second edition of Marin Držić’s Tirena, published in 1607. One of these, printed only in part, is addressed to Vlaho Držić, while the other is addressed to Cardinal Silvestro Aldobrandini. It has been generally maintained that the dedication to Aldobrandini was never printed because it was attested in a single manuscript copy, produced by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski in 1840 from an unidentified source. Contrary to this view, a newly discovered copy of the 1607 edition of Tirena, to which attention is here drawn for the first time, proves that the dedication to Aldobrandini was in fact printed in full. The essay shows that this printed copy served as the basis for a mid-eighteenth-century manuscript codex of Držić’s works put together by Miho Rastić, which has similarly escaped the notice of scholars. It is further shown that Rastić’s manuscript was the direct source for Kukuljević’s nineteenth-century transcript. A detailed bibliographical analysis of all the surviving exemplars of the second edition of Držić’s Tirena reveals that the play was published in only one edition, but with variant dedicatory epistles. Despite the recently revived claims that Držić’s works were published in Venice in a fourth edition in 1632, a fresh examination of the surviving evidence combined with new findings suggests that such claims are unfounded and that the edition from 1630 is at once the third and the last Venetian edition of Držić’s works.
Keywords
Marin Držić; Tirena; history of publishing; dedicatory epistles; manuscript transmission; Venetian printing; Francesco Bariletti; Marco Ginammi
Hrčak ID:
186138
URI
Publication date:
4.9.2017.
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