Naslov
Cassandra Fedele and her Dalmatian Correspondents

Autori
Bogdan, Tomislav

Izvornik
Živa antika (0514-7727) 68 (2018), 1-2; 99-124

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Cassandra Fedele, women in European humanism, Dalmatian humanism, Benedikt Mišulić, Ambroz Mihetić, Pavao Paladinić, Bernard Pima, humanist epistolography

Sažetak
The paper analyses the written correspondence between Cassandra Fedele, a renowned Venetian woman humanist from the late 15th and early 16th century, and three lesser-known Dalmatian humanists – Benedikt Mišulić from Pag, Ambroz Mihetić from Šibenik and Pavao Paladinić from Hvar. The first two exchanged letters with Fedele ; from their correspondence only one of her letters to Mišulić and one to Mihetić have been preserved, as well another longer letter Mihetić sent to the Venetian humanist. The analysis of these letters primarily focuses on the details of their content, which allow for the reconstruction of the cultural climate in Dalmatian cities and broadens our understanding of its protagonists and the literary communication between the two Adriatic coasts. The paper also notes that Fedele mentions Mišulić in at least two other letters in which she is probably pleading for a position at the Spanish court. On the other hand, Paladinić dedicated a laudatory poem in Latin to Fedele in which he praises her erudition. Apart from widening our knowledge of the three Dalmatian humanists and their contacts with Fedele, the paper also analyses specific rhetorical strategies the texts employ. In the conclusion the paper considers the possibility that the addressee of two of Fedele’s letters might have been a humanist from Kotor named Bernard Pima. The assumption is nevertheless dismissed, but Pima is credited with the authorship of two overlooked poems from a manuscript in the Marciana Library.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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