Jerolim Kavanjin
Jerolim Kavanjin | |
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Spalato, Republic of Venice | |
| Nationality | Venetian |
| Occupation | poet |
Jerolim Kavanjin, also known as Girolamo Cavagnini (4 February 1641 – 29 November 1714), was a
Biography
Kavanjin was born into a wealthy and noble family of Split, as a descendant of the Croaticised Italian family Cavagnini. Kavanjin rose to prominence at the same time as
In his summer mansion on
Expressing the spirit of philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries, this "encyclopædia in verses" (Josip Aranza) directs its Baroque spirituality towards the cogitation on life and human essentiality in the dual nature of the human and the divine.
Beside the classical humanistic, Latinate, and Italian literatures (such as
Kavanjin identified with Slavs and Dalmatia. John Fine interprets his pan-Slavism and Dalmatianism to have been close to an ethnic notion.[3]
Kavanjin died in
References
- ^ Božić-Bužančić 1999, p. 181.
- ^ Božić-Bužančić 1999, p. 183.
- ^ When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press. 2006. p. 287.
Besides this pan-Slavism, which produced in him the identity that came closest to being ethnic, Kavanjin exhibited the noted "Dalmatianism". This local "Dalmatian" identity was the only competitor "Slavic" had. And, after all, as he said, Dalmatia was his homeland. And two such identities could easily co-exist and both could have "ethnic" ingredients.
Sources
- ISBN 953-0-61107-2
- Božić-Bužančić, Danica (October 1999). "Ivan Petar Marchi-Markić: njegovo djelovanje i njegova oporuka" (PDF). Radovi Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Zadru (in Croatian) (41). Zavod povijesti znanosti HAZU: 181–202. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
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