Bogdan, Tomislav.
(2017).
Cassandra Fedele and her Dalmatian correspondents.
Croatica: časopis za hrvatski jezik, književnost i kulturu, 41(61).
pp. 227-252.
ISSN 1849-1111
Abstract
The paper analyzes the written correspondence between Cassandra Fedele, a renowned
Venetian Humanist from the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, and
three lesser-known Dalmatian Humanists - Benedikt Mišulić from Pag, Ambroz Mihetić
from Šibenik and Pavao Paladinić from Hvar. The first two exchanged letters with
Fedele; from their correspondence merely one of her letters to Mišulić and Mihetić has
been preserved, as well another longer letter Mihetić sent to the Venetian Humanist.
The analysis of those letters primarily focuses on the details of their content which
allow for the reconstruction of the cultural climate in Dalmatian cities and broadens our
understanding of its protagonists and the literary communication between the two Adriatic coasts. The paper also notes that Fedele mentions Mišulić in at least two other
letters in which she probably pleads for a position at the Spanish court. On the other
hand, Paladinić dedicated a laudatory poem in Latin to Fedele in which he praises her
erudition. Apart from widening our knowledge of the three Dalmatian Humanists and
their contacts with Fedele, the paper also analyzes specific rhetorical strategies the
texts employ. In the conclusion the paper considers the possibility that the addressee of
two Fedele’s letters might have been a Humanist from Kotor named Bernard Pima. The
assumption is nevertheless dismissed, but Pima is attributed with two overlooked poems from a manuscript in Marciana
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