Naslov
In epigrammata priscorum commentarius – a humanist way of contextualizing Classics

Autori
Stepanić, Gorana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), stručni

Izvornik
Класическото образование в контекст. Сборник от международна научна конференция на катедра "Класическа филология" / The Classical Education in Context. Papers from an International Conference of the Department of Classical Studies / Gerjikova, V., Marinova, E. - Sofija : University Press "St. Kliment Ohridski", 2012, 54-66

ISBN
978-954-07-3313-5

Skup
The Classical Education in Context

Mjesto i datum
Sofija, Bugarska, 02.05.2006. - 06.05.2006

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Salona; humanist epigraphy; Latin commentary; Marko Marulić

Sažetak
Marko Marulić (Marcus Marulus Spalatensis Dalmata, Split, 1450 – Split, 1524), a humanist author called the father of the Croatian literature, is today well known as the author of the first epic poem in the Croatian language (Judita / Judith, finished in 1501, published in 1521), and in his times he was famous in the Western world for his Latin moralistic and theological prose (De institutione bene vivendi per exempla sanctorum, Evangelistarium etc.). In epigrammata priscorum commentarius is a collection of ancient Latin inscriptions from Rome, other parts of Italy and the ancient city of Salona (Salonae, today an archeological site near today’s Split in Middle Dalmatia) accompanied with Latin commentaries on each of the inscriptions. It is considered to be one of the author’s minor works and it has not been completely edited, being his only text missing from the voluminous Opera omnia (although there is a critical edition coming soon, based on an autograph newly discovered in the Bodleian Library in Oxford). The partial editions edited so far concentrate on the very inscriptions, neglecting the commentary, which contains a wide range of philological, theological and historical remarks. Some of the remarks relate to etymology of Greek words in the inscriptions, orthography of Latin words ; there are notes on persons mentioned in the inscriptions, on geography, ancient religion, Roman law, money etc. The most interesting for us are the commentaries in which the author shows the spirit of humanism, comparing the ancient times to his own, complaining about the transience of human things, moralizing from the Christian point of view, molding the written past and making it a source-book for his contemporaries. Like any other humanist author, Marulić cannot forget or suppress his dominant role of a (Christian) moralizer because he does not just admire the classics, but inevitably contextualizes them, just as some of his Italian and other colleagues did, among which there are famous humanists such as Petrarch, Vergerius, Poggio and Erasmus.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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