Naslov
Plotting Overthrows: A Ragusan Playwright in Florence, 1566

Autori
Lupić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting

Mjesto i datum
Sjedinjene Američke Države, 27.03.2014. - 29.03.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Renaissance drama ; insurrection ; political thought ; Marin Držić

Sažetak
This paper discusses the letters sent by Marin Držić, a prominent Ragusan poet and playwright, to Cosimo I de’ Medici and his son Francesco, in the summer of 1566. The letters, which still survive in the Florence State Archives, attempt to persuade the duke to undertake an overthrow of the government of the Ragusan Republic, ruled at the time by the Ragusan nobility in an oligarchic fashion. Držić promised the support of a large group of dissatisfied citizens, among whom he counted himself, and made a detailed proposal regarding the new and, he thought, better political constitution of the future. The episode draws our attention to the political problems of a state that managed to preserve its independence between the Ottoman East and the Christian West for several centuries. It also raises significant questions about the relationship between political thought and literary practice in the borderlands of Europe.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Filologija, Povijest, Kazališna umjetnost (scenske i medijske umjetnosti), Književnost

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