Marko Marulić
Marko Marulić ( Latin: Marcus Marulus ; born August 18, 1450 in Split ; † January 5, 1524 ibid) was a Croatian poet and humanist .
Life
Marko Marulić came from a noble family and received his education first in Split, later probably in Padua , although the latter is not clearly verifiable. Split experienced its heyday in those years. Humanism and the Renaissance then spread from Italy to the other Mediterranean countries. The humanistic school of Split succeeded in hiring Tideo Acciarini, an outstanding poet and educator, as a teacher. Marulić was his student and wrote Latin epigrams at the age of 16-17, some of which have survived.
His first successful work was De institutione bene vivendi per exempla sanctorum from 1506, which was published 62 times.
Marulić preferred Latin to Croatian; nevertheless he is considered the father of Croatian literature. He was the first to translate Petrarch and Dante into Croatian. He wrote the epic Judita in Old Čakavian , a Croatian dialect, according to all standards of humanistic epic . By being the first to apply the high requirements of Western European standards for poetry in Croatian, he brought it to a European level.
Works
- the comical poem Poklad i korisma ( Carnival and Lent )
- the song Molitva suprotiva Turkom ( The Prayer against the Turks ) describes what the Croats had to endure when the Turks attacked. For centuries it was considered a model for patriotic poetry.
- the Latin epic poem Davidias in 6765 hexameters about the life of the biblical King David with an appendix in prose (Tropologica Davidiadis expositio) , which offers an allegorical interpretation of people and events in the Old Testament. The poem was dedicated to Cardinal Domenico Grimani , who apparently disliked it; in any case it was not published and was only rediscovered and published in the 20th century.
- In the song Tuženje grada Hijerozolima ( The Lamentation of the City of Jerusalem ) from 1522, Marulić describes all the atrocities that the people had to endure and, in the Croatian stanzas , turned to the Pope with an appeal. The Pope is angrily asked not to be lazy ("... ne lini se ..."), otherwise it would be too late. Marulić was the first Croatian to write an open letter to Pope Hadrian VI. judged.
Text output
- Miroslav Markovich (Ed.): M. Maruli Delmatae Davidias. Brill, Leiden 2006, ISBN 90-04-14963-5 (critical edition)
literature
- Winfried Baumann: The "Davidias" of Marko Marulić. The great epic of the Dalmatian Latinity. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-8204-7985-6
- Zvonko Pandžić: Nepoznata proza Marka Marulića. O novootkrivenim i novoatribuiranim hrvatskim rukopisima. Tusculanae Editiones, Zagreb 2009, ISBN 978-953-95144-6-2 (pp. 1–148 in Croatian; pp. 149–173 summary in German).
- Elisabeth von Erdmann: On the poetics of Marko Marulic (I). The spiritual sense of writing: allegory and typology. In: Colloquia Maruliana. Vol. 9, 1998, OCLC 804870745 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Marko Marulić in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Marko Marulić in the German Digital Library
- Detailed biography (Croatian)
- Zvonko Pandžić: Nepoznata proza Marka Marulića , 2009 (Croatian)
supporting documents
- ↑ Bratislav Lučin: MARKO MARULIĆ I PADOVA . In: Kulturna baština . 39, October 14, 2013, pp. 39-58, pp. 41f.
- ↑ Igor Fisković: Tematske sukladnosti Marulovih i suvremenih Dela u Dalmaciji 15-16, stoljeća. In: Colloquia Maruliana. Vol. 5, 1996, pp. 171–188, here p. 184 ( English summary and link to PDF on the Hrcak Portal of scientific journals of Croatia ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marulić, Marko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian poet and European humanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1450 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Split |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1524 |
| Place of death | Split |