Naslov
The European Enlightement Spirit in the Correspondence of Croatian polyhistor and composer Julije Bajamonti

Autori
Tomić Ferić, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Padron mio colendissimo: Letters about music and stage in the 18th century

Urednik/ci
Yordanova, Iskrena ; Fernandes, Cristina

Izdavač
Hollitzer

Grad
Beč

Godina
2021

Raspon stranica
481-518

ISBN
978-3-99012-955-5

ISSN
2616-9037

Ključne riječi
Julije Bajamonti ; Enlightenment ; Correspondence

Sažetak
Julije Bajamonti (1744–1800), one of the most learned, many-sided and progressive figure in the whole Croatian history, was a man of encyclopedic education – as well as being a physician, he was also a writer, translator, linguist, bibliographer, ethnologist, historian, philosopher and musician – author of the first Croatian oratory La translatione di San Doimo (1770). He was engaged in music in many ways, as a composer, organist, choir master, promotor and organizer of musical and theatre activities, as well as, musical writer and theorist. As the true Enlightenment child, Bajamonti maintained relations with numerous contemporaries within and beyond the Croatian borders through the “culture of correspondence”. Most of his correspondence has been preserved in Bajamonti’s hometown in Split (Archive of the Archaeological Museum). It is a collection of regesta and concepts in a number of volumes, covering the period from 1771 to 1800 (a total of 1244 concepts in italian). The alphabetical index of Bajamonti's concepts distinguishes 250 persons - local and foreign scholars, writers, artists, musicians and public personalities - with whom Bajamonti, occasionally or frequently, corresponded. One of the most prominent is Alberto Fortis (1741–1803), an Italian naturalist, author of the popular travelogue Viaggio in Dalmazia (1774), who became famous in contemporary Europe for discovering the unknown treasure from the eastern Adriatic coast. Bajamonti’s letters about music take an extremely important place in the whole preserved correspondence that shows the penetration and permeation of Enlightenment ideas on the Adriatic coasts in the period of music classicism, reflecting the universality of the spirit and the lifestyles of its author. His writing style is modern and close to the level of European classicist thoughts obvious in distancing from scholastic philosophy and its later branches, from the pathos similar to baroque tradition and oriented towards the practical reflection in which philosophy is linked to politics in order to create a rich, modern nation. With his versatility and epistolaric dialogues, Bajamonti exerted a specific influence on the cultural and social being of Croatian intellectuals, as well as on its presentation far outside of the Croatian lands.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti, Glazbena umjetnost

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