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“Love Poetry in Zadar in the 16th Century”

The article compares 16th century love poetry in Zadar literary circle regarding the correlation between the nature of amorous relation and the ways in which the Petrarchistic thesaurus and the idea of Neoplatonism are present in the text. The subject of interest is a poem by the city notary public Jerolim Vidulić, love poems in the pastoral lines of Zoranić’s Planine, six love poems by Šime Budinić written around 1560, and four prose love letters which might be the remains of an anonymous reference book from the 16th century. The analysis of Petrarchan canon in versed lines of Zoranić’s Planine reveals a semantical organization in the manner in which the poems are incorporated into the prose lines of the pastoral novel and the semantical relation between the order of poems and their content: the love theme has an external frame (the theme of tombstone) and is divided into three interrelated minicycles connected with the Neoplatonic idea of spiritual development of the lover from the wordly love to the revelation of the Meaning Based on four Zadar love letters the transferability of their communication framework to other literary genres and the functional compatibility of their rhetorical ornatus and comic genre of love dialogues in Benetović’s comedy entitled Hvarkinja, created at the same time, can be noticed.

Love Poetry, Zadar, 16.th Century

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