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Pavao Ritter Vitezović's private records and verse correspondence as sources of insight into the quotidian life of the author in the pre-modern Habsburg Empire
Violeta Moretti
; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Sažetak
This paper presents the results of research into several aspects of the everyday life of the Croatian polymath Pavao Ritter Vitezović during his stay in Vienna in the period from 1710 to 1712. It contains an introduction, two case studies, and final remarks, as well as the renditions of several epistles into Croatian language by Zrinka Blažević. The first study is based on the critical edition published in 2019 under the title Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Epistolae Metricae (edited by Violeta Moretti and Gorana Stepanić). It thematizes an episode from Vitezović's life exploring a few striking elements that can be inferred from the epistolary conversation between Vitezović and the secretary for correspondence of the Hungarian Court Office Éliás Wanyeczy concerning a joint meal on St Leonard's day. These elements include the question of the menu, and the nature of the relationship between the two correspondents. The letter addressed to Ritter (NSK, R 3953 b) facilitates the reconstruction of Vitezović's relationship with Wanyeczy, and supplements the conclusions about the role of the Latin epistle in the conversational culture of the early eighteenth century.
The second study presents several insights into Vitezović's work habits based on the exploration of the author's personal notes contained within the booklet bearing the title Varia extracta et notitiae (archived in the National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia, as manuscript R 3463). It shows that Vitezović, who is well known today as an extremely productive author, continues to build his own fund of proverbs, sayings and quotes in his mature years. Of special interest are two Croatian verses with atypical content compared to the rest of Vitezović's œuvre, as well as his personal notes on sold copies of his recent editions. Although the selected sources are not diaries in the strict sense – considering the fact that epistolae metricae are verse epistles addressed to both the various correspondents from Vitezović's time and to posterity, while Varia extracta et notitiae are prose records of a private character – yet they offer insight into Vitezović's everyday life and, as such, need to be further explored if we wish to provide a basis for presenting Vitezović's private life in greater detail.
Ključne riječi
Latin verse epistles; conversational culture; the early eighteenth century; quotation notebook; quotidian life; Pavao Ritter Vitezović
Hrčak ID:
309948
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Datum izdavanja:
20.11.2023.
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