Original scientific paper

“Porazenje pravednijeh mladjenaca” by Nikola Marija Antica

Milovan Tatarin orcid.org/0000-0001-7327-4158 ; Faculty of Philosophy, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

Abstract

Porazenje pravednijeh mladjenaca (Massacre of the Innocent) was known to the 18th-century biographers (Serafin Marija Črijević, Francesco Maria Appendini) as a work of Antun Gleđević. However, the poem by Nikola Maria Antica, a poetic translation of Giambattista Marino’s work (1569-1625), La strage degli Innocenti (Naples, 1632) has never been printed in a modern form. The first canto of the epic (119 octosyllabic quatrains) has been preserved as “Sumnja Jerudova” (The Doubt of Erode), in which, because of rumours of the Saviour’s birth, the rage of the rulers of hell was celebrated in verse. Since the transcript of Ivan Marija Matijašević ends with a custoda, which suggests a continuation, it cannot be decidedly said whether Antica completed or did not finish the poem for some reason.

Keywords

Nikola Marija Antica, Porazenje pravednijeh mladjenaca, Croatian baroque, Dubrovnik, Giambattista Marino, La strage degli Innocenti

Hrčak ID:

240461

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/240461

Publication date:

10.3.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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