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Generic, Stylistic, Geographic and Social Stratifications of the Baroque Latin Poetry in South Eastern Europe

The Baroque literary style spread across European catholic and protestant literatures during the 17th century. As in many vernacular languages, it can also be found in the Latin poetry of the period, even in the periphery of the Republic of Letters, in the south-eastern parts of Habsburg territories and the Ragusan Republic in the Eastern Adriatic, which were parts of modern-day Croatia. In this paper I am going to present stylistically typical fragments from the Neo-Latin Baroque by three Croatian Neo-Latin poets (Đurđević, Vičić, Ritter Vitezović), originating from different zones of cultural influence: the Italian-influenced Adriatic coast and the Habsburg heartland. The stylistic and generic traits of their poetry thus present great differences: while in the North one observes a lasting fashion of pattern poetry and technopaegnia along with the exuberant style, the coastal poets were less prone to formal experiments and more likely to use sophisticated concetto within the traditional classical generic system. I will try to explain that difference by social stratification of the Neo-Latin poetry market in the two zones: on its „high end“ there is the poetry based on classical genres, intended for private reading, aesthetic and intellectual pleasure ; on the opposite side there is the massively produced occasional poetry within fashionable genres (anagrams, rebuses). This post-humanist generic and social “dropping“ of Latin poetry is seen as a phenomenon parallel to Central European Volksbarock in architecture.

Neo-Latin Baroque poetry, Baroque style

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