Original scientific paper
Vicko Kapitanović
Abstract
The forcible confi nement of political opponents to monasteries is a
practice well known since the early Middle Ages. However, in the area of Croatia such practices have not yet been suffi ciently researched and studied. The Croats who are known to have been confi ned to monasteries for political reasons were, for the most part, sent abroad in order to be as isolated as possible. The known facts concerning the confi nement of Ivan Josip Pavlović Lučić, a well-known priest of
Makarska, as well as an outstanding public fi gure of his time, have been supplemented by means of new archive sources. He was apprehended on the 20th of December 1802, whereupon he was confi ned to the monastery of Visovac on the 1st of January 1803. He was eventually released on the 15th of January 1806, following the relinquishing of Dalmatia to the French by Austria after the defeat at Slavkov. Who Pavlović was accused by and what of has for a long time been a matter of debate and disagreement. A record partly preserved in the police archives in Vienna, signed by a certain Marković, seems to corroborate the speculations that the reason for Pavlović’s confi nement was his advocating of Dalmatia, following the
fall of the Venetian Republic, to be reunited with Croatia and Hungary, which was against the wishes and intentions of the Viennese court who, on their part, wanted to make Dalmatia another of their hereditary provinces. Whatever confl icts Pavlović may have had with some Franciscans was of no interest to the Habsburg court.
Keywords
political confinement; Visovac; Ivan Josip Pavlović Lučić; Carnea Steffaneo; Andrija Dorotić; the informer Marković; reuniting Dalmatia with Croatia
Hrčak ID:
112093
URI
Publication date:
14.5.2010.
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