Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/ygjwrcd7gy
Saintly Love of Saint Catherine in a Mystical Poem by Junije Palmotić
Ivana Brković
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Univerity of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Written by the Ragusan poet and playwright Junije Palmotić (1607–1667), religious poem Sveta Katarina od Sijene has until now been neglected by Croatian literary historiography. This article aims to show that Sveta Katarina, classified as a Baroque religious poem, leans on the tradition of mystical literature, which distinguishes it from the representative tear poems written by Ivan Gundulić, Ivan Bunić Vučić and Ignjat Đurđević. Thematising the experience of the higher, divine love, the poem is analysed from the emotionological perspective in terms of both particular representation of this type of love and of the reception, i.e., the emotions that the poem was ‘expected’ to arouse in the audience. The analysis shows that the representation of divine love on the one side points to late-medieval female mysticism, and on the other, to postTridentine religious poetry. Yet these insights also open questions on the pragmatic function of the work intended for nuns with an aim to incite particular
‘religious’ emotions, along with the question of the religious emotional regime and emotional style which in the period of Catholic Renewal was also pursued in the female convents of Dubrovnik.
Keywords
Dubrovnik; 17th century; literature; Baroque; Junije Palmotić; Saint Catherine of Siena; religious poem; emotions and literature; mystical poem; barokni plač (poetry of tears)
Hrčak ID:
267669
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Publication date:
1.12.2021.
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