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Antun Vrančić's „Occasional“ Letters in the Light of the Humanistic Treatises of Letter-Writing

Croatian humanist, diplomat and Primate of Hungary, Antun Vrančić (1504-1573), in a period of 35 years, i.e. from 1538 to 1573, wrote about 800 letters, mostly in Latin, and only in a few cases in Italian and Hungarian. In this corpus I identified a considerable number of letters that could be called „occasional“ as they are written on some specific events or occasions, for example, letters of consolation (epistolae consolatoriae), letters of recommendation (epistolae commendaticiae), letters of petition (epistolae petitoriae), etc. Some of these letters will be examined in the context of the rules given in the theories of letter-writing of humanistic treatises ars epistolandi (especially treatise De conscribendis epistolis of Erasmus Rotterdamus, and the same named manual of Franciscus Niger) in order to determine their possible influence on composition of Vrančić's letters.

Antun Vrančić, humanism, epistolographic treatises, ars epistolandi

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