Original scientific paper
Osanna of Cattaro in-between Girolamo Savonarola, Mavro Vetranović and Serafino Razzi
Viktoria Franić Tomić
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Croatian Studies. Zagreb, Croatia
Slobodan Prosperov Novak
; Academy of Dramatic Art University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
On the basis of all the stories and records about Osanna of Cattaro, the blessed patron of Cattaro (Kotor), including rhymed poems (by Vicko Bolica Kokoljić, Vicko Dudan and Dominik Cecić) and historiographic notes (by Serafino Razzi, Andrija Balović and anonym in the Šibenik’s manuscript), authors managed to identify encoded mention of Osanna of Cattaro in a poem of Mavro Vetranović (Orlača Riđanka). Furthermore, authors paid a special attention to women who followed Girolamo Savonerola in Italy, which had a certain reflection and influence, through the notion of vergine murate, who had prophetic abilities, to the real life and later textual interpretations of the life of Blessed Osanna of Cattaro. Moreover, authors also discuss post-Tridentine re-interpretations of her biography in the historiographic works of Serafino Razzi. This interpretation is tightly connected with the previous narrations about walled virgins, but it also is related to the changes in these narrations, which was a result of the Catholic reformation in the second half of the sixteenth century, especially regarding a new concept of holiness. After a detailed elaboration about literary sources on the life of Osanna of Cattaro, authors discuss newly discovered relation between Girolamo Savonarola and the Croatian literature, especially regarding the concept beatique vivedi. This concept can be traced also in the work of Marko Marulić, especially regarding his concept of acquiring holiness since he also uses this phrase. Moreover, the phrase beateque vivedi is quite often used in post-Tridentine period, especially in the circles of Savonarola followers. In all these events and processes Serafino Razzi had an important role.
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Publication date:
20.12.2020.
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