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Etnical Motifs in the Verse of Rajmund Kunić

Ljerka Schiffler ; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hvatska

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Rajmund Kunić (Raymundus Cunichius, born in Dubrovnik Jan 24 1719, died in Rome Nov 22 1794), Croatian Latinist of the 18th century, a Jesuit, professor of Greek rhetoric at the Collegium Romanum, translator from Greek and Italian into Latin, outstanding character in the European neo-Latinist literature, is the author ofthe cycle »Moralia« belonging to his collection Epigrammata (Ragusii, 1827) and representing a quarter of all Kunić’s epigrams in manuscript. »Moralia« stands as a thematic whole along with other epigram cycles »Sacra«, »Votiva«, »Encomiastica«, »Satyrica«, »Ludicra«, »Varia«, »Sepulcralia et lugubria«. Kunić was neither a philosopher nor theologist but he eagerly examined matters of anthropology and ethics. A man of extensive knowledge in philosophy and theology, he took active part in the intellectual movements of the 18th century joining the Roman circle together with Bošković, the Stay brothers and Zamagna, writers, poets, philosophers, scientists and artists such as Alfieri, Monti, Metastasio, Cimarosa, Canova, Mengs, David etc. He was also member of the Academia degli Arcadi. The reflective character of Kunić’s poetic opus enables extensive study of ethical and esthetical reflection. The subject and content of the »Moralia« reveal dominant ideas and motives of most of the moral, philosophical and theological disputes, compendia and didactic accounts of the Age of reason and classicism. This small anthology with recognizable proverbial elements drawn from the moral doctrine of ancient Greek and Roman heritage, strewn with Jesuit ethical learning and the ideas of contemporary rationalism, illustrates Kunić’s poetic expression for the recognition of basic values of human life and art of living. Kunić’s philosophy of man, modelled on the examples from the history of ethics, made way for numerous European and domestic disputes on the nature of man, origin of beauty, destiny, self-consciousness, relationship between mortality and immortality, and the essence of life.

Ključne riječi

Ramund Kunić; poetry

Hrčak ID:

239915

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/239915

Datum izdavanja:

20.6.1996.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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