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https://doi.org/10.21857/mjrl3uo3j9
Filippo Diversi of Lucca in Dubrovnik: from school rector to the author of the praise of the city
Zdenka Janeković Römer
; Zavod za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku, Dubrovnik, Hrvatska
Sažetak
As rector of the Ragusan grammar school, Filippo Diversi was in Dubrovnik from 1434 to 1441. He taught Italian and Latin, but also lectured in the studia humaniora. He worked as a teacher in Venice before and after his position in Dubrovnik. Despite
high salary and provided accommodation, Diversi was not satisfied with how the Ragusan government treated him because, apparently, his ambitions had not met the government's expectations from a school rector. Disputes over remuneration,
work space, curriculum and his frequent absence from Dubrovnik were not rare. Yet determined to keep his post, Diversi wrote a praise to the city of Dubrovnik and its customs, titled Situs aedificorum politiae et laudabilium consuetudinum inclytae civitatis
Ragusii ad ipsium senatum descriptio. In addition, he also authored several humanist speeches, delivered on the occassions of coronation and death of the kings Sigismund of Luxembourg and Albert of Habsburg.
The paper analyses and interprets Diversi's relationship with the Ragusans and the mentioned praise of the city, its appearance and architecture, political system, offices, piety, trade, maritime activities, crafts, landed estates, living standard and various
customs. Further, the paper introduces new biographical data on Diversi, his family and his activities in Venice. Equally, archival sources reveal data on his Ragusan household and his attitude towards the domestics. In Venice he copied in his own hand selected epistles of St. Jerome in 1455, along with several epistles of St. Augustine and Origen's orations. In 1457 Filippo de Diversis left Venice and set out for Cividale in Friuli, where he assumed a three-year post of a school rector. There, like in Dubrovnik, he complained of the government's treatment, competition and his students' parents. The last known
mention of Diversi dates from 1461, when he abandoned Cividale, having resigned from the teacher's position. In all likelihood, he spent his final days in Venice, his favourite city.
Despite mutual dissatisfaction which eventually led to the cancellation of contract with Diversi, Dubrovnik and its inhabitants are indebted to him for his humanistically inspired praise of Dubrovnik, a unique source, a window into the city's life of the first half of the fifteenth century.
Ključne riječi
Middle ages; Dubrovnik; humanism; Filippo Diversi
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324049
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Datum izdavanja:
18.12.2024.
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