Dukić, Davor and Lukec, Jasmina.
(2017).
The poems of Ana Katarina Zrinski - poetics and context.
Croatica: časopis za hrvatski jezik, književnost i kulturu, 41(61).
pp. 273-294.
ISSN 1849-1111
Abstract
In the mid-1980s a manuscript collection of poems was discovered, which had supposedly belonged to Ana Katarina Zrinski (c. 1625-1673) and which contains poems she
had written herself. The collection was recently published (Pjesmarica Ane Katarine
Zrinske, ed. J. Bratulić, Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 2014), thus enabling comprehensive
research which was initiated by Ivan Zvonar (2006) even before the collection had been
published. Our analysis draws on his research. The paper brings a short description of
the collection’s contents and its structure, and then goes on to determine which poems
may be attributed to Ana Katarina Zrinski. The analysis of those poems is based on
identifying motifs that correspond to the biography of the supposed author and on pointing out metrical, stylistic and thematic similarities between the supposed Katarina’s
poems and the poetry written by her husband Petar Zrinski and brother Fran Krsto
Frankopan. We come to the conclusion that 31 poems in the collection can be attributed
to Katarina, and find new evidence in support of Ivan Zvonar’s hypothesis that her
work had strongly influenced the poetry of her younger brother.
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