FRANCISCUS XAVERIUS VERNEDA, A JESUIT FROM RIJEKA, AND HIS ELEGY TO JÓZSEF MAILÁTH, A GOVERNOR OF RIJEKA (1778)

Abstract

At the very beginning this article deals with life and work of former Jesuit Franciscus Xaverius Verneda (1736-1829), the Latin author from Rijeka. It goes on outlining basic data on his laudatory Latin elegy, which credits the emperor Charles VI, queen Mary Theresia and József Mailáth with a great economic blossoming of Rijeka during the 18th century. In the end the entire elegy is transcribed and translated in original meter.