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Origin, Meaning and Perception of the Images Printed in the Early Modern Epic Poem Judith

Ivana Čapeta Rakić contributes to the long-standing debate on Marko Marulić’s epic poem Judith as possibly to be read, at a symbolic level, as part of the anti-Ottoman corpus of Croatian literature. The earliest literary work in Croatian, this epic poem was written in 1501, during the Second Ottoman-Venetian War (1499-1503), when the Turks had already started to plunder the Fields of Kaštela and had reached the walls of Marulić’s native Split. The author analyses the visual narratives provided by the xylographies printed in the second and the fourth editions of the poem, dating back to 1522 and 1586 respectively. She investigates the origins, characters and connection to the text of the two series of illustrations, neither of which was originally designed for this specific work: the first was produced for the 1516 edition of Joachim of Fiore’s Expositio in librum Beati Cirilli ; the second – here for the first time taken into consideration in the frame of this discussion – illustrated Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, whose plot builds on the general theme of war between the Christians and the Saracens.

poem, judith, marulić, iconography

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