Andrija Kačić Miošić
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Andrija Kačić Miošić | |
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Franciscan friar | |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Education | Zaostrog monastery and Buda |
| Literary movement | Enlightenment |
| Notable works | Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga (Pleasant Conversation of Slavic People, 1756), a history in verse |
Andrija Kačić Miošić (Croatian pronunciation: Kačić noble family, one of the oldest and most influential Croatian noble families.
Biography
Born in Brist near Makarska, he became a Franciscan friar. He was educated at Zaostrog monastery and Buda. He taught philosophy at Zaostrog and in Sumartin on Brač.
His most important work is A Pleasant Conversation of the Slavic People (
Shtokavian dialect as the standard Croatian language. It contain poems about Skanderbeg, which were basis for the tragedy Skenderbeg written by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski in the 19th century.[1] They were also basis for Život i viteška voevanja slavnog kneza epirskog Đorđa Kastriota Skenderbega written by Jovan Sterija Popović in 1828.[2]
Using the ten-syllable verse of folk poetry and relying on
Bosnian nation and its historical events.[3]
Since the book includes some important folk poems, many readers considered it a folk songbook.
Pleasant Conversation is mostly
didactic in tone and of little artistic value, but later served as a valuable source of historic data and gave inspiration for future Croatian writers.[citation needed
]
His other works are a
Latin
and a chronicle called Korabljica (1760), where he used passages from other writers, including Vitezović.
References
- OCLC 57736273, retrieved 26 November 2011,
O Skenderbegu... Njega pominje u svome Osmanu i Ivan Gundulić... Osobito o njemu pjeva fra Kačić Miošić. Zanimljivo je istaknuti da je Ivan Kukuljević-Kacinski na osnovi pevanja fra Andrije Kačića-Miošića napisao tragediju pod naslovom Skenderbeg koja se u rukopisu čuva u Arhivu HAZU [About Skanderbeg... Ivan Gundulić mentioned him in his Osman. He is particularly present in poems of friar Kačić Miošić. It is interesting to emphasize that Ivan Kukuljević-Kacinski, on the basis of songs of friar Andrija Kačić-Miošić, wrote a tragedy titled Skanderbeg which manuscript is kept in Archive of HAZU
- OCLC 11356363, retrieved 26 November 2011,
"Život i viteška voevanja slavnog kneza epirskoga Đorđa Kastriota Skenderbega" imade i Kačićevih pjesama po kojima je pisac i radio to svoje djelo.
- ^ Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža". "Hrvatski biografski leksikon "Andrija Miošić": Bošnjaci". LEKSIKOGRAFSKI ZAVOD MIROSLAV KRLEŽA. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
External links
Croatian Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- Short biography (in Croatian)
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