Naslov
“Similarities and Differences of Discourses in the Travel Books of Antun Vrančić and Marco Antonio Pigafetta”

Autori
Mrdeža Antonina, Divna

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
History as a Foreign Country: Historical Imagery in South-Eastern Europe

Urednik/ci
Blažević, Zrinka ; Brković, Ivana ; Dukić, Davor

Izdavač
Bouvier

Grad
Bon

Godina
2015

Raspon stranica
197-216

ISBN
978-3-416-03383-1

Ključne riječi
Antun Vrančić, Marco Antonio Pigafetta, imagologie, diaries, letters, ars apodemica

Sažetak
The article discusses the perception of the space of the European part of the Ottoman Empire as recorded in travel books by two authors from the second part of the XVIth century: the humanist Antun Vrančić, the Hungarian primate, from Šibenik and Marco Antonio Pigafetta from Venice, a less known member of the famous family of travel writers. The article analyses Vrančić's two uncompleted travel books dating from his first mission to Turkey (1553-1557) and two preserved diaries and two letters addressed to Maximilian II from the same route during his second mission to Istanbul in 1567. Vrančić was accompanied on this journey by M. A. Pigafetta who recorded his own observations. The article gives a reading of his travel book entitled Itinerario di Marc' Antonio Pigafetta gentil' huomo vicentino, which was published in London in 1585. This was the well- trodden route from Hungary by river (Danube) and over the land: the distance Budim – Belgrade and thence via the Istanbul road (Smederevo – Ćuprija – Drinopolje – Istanbul). Travel books describing an identical space written by two authors who travel together prompted the author to explore the perception of an identical space and time of an unknown culture, that is, to investigate the representation of discursive models of the culture to which the writers belong. On the one hand, their perception of reality was shown to depend on the system of ideas presented by the travel writers: on Renaissance theories of ars apodemica, on concepts of mapping geographical space, methods of observing the real world ; on the other hand, it depended on the writers's perception of the power relations between Christianity and Islam as two separate worlds. The representation of space we find in both travel writers, particularly in Pigafetta, indicates that Christian Europe had embarked on a period of admiration for the Ottomans regardless of the numerous lamentations over the sombre condition of the conquered European lands in the XVIth century. Both writers offered to their European readers a story about an exotic space that they thought ought to be returned to the jurisdiction of European rulers.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost

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