SLOBODARSKI DUH LUDOVIKA PASKVALIĆA U POSLANICAMA NA ITALIJANSKOM JEZIKU
THE LIBERTARIAN SPIRIT OF LUDOVIC PASKVALIĆ IN HIS EPISTLES IN THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this paper is the description of the epistles of the poet Ludovic Paskvalić (1500-1551) which he sent to his friends, fellow citizens, and high officials of the Republic of Venice, and which were bequeathed in his only poetry book pub- lished during his lifetime in the Italian language Rime volgari (1549). The best years of the poet’s life from the Bay of Kotor coincided with the period of dominance of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean and its threat to the Venetian Republic, which included the poet’s hometown - Kotor. The wartime circumstances in which he grew up gave birth to freedom as one of the important subjects in his work, for which Paskvalić fought not only with a pen but also with a weapon. As a chronicler of the times, he left precious information about his contemporaries who contrib- uted to the defense of Paskvalić’s hometown. Because of all the above, Paskvalić’s epistles are a significant literary and historical testimony. The aim of this work is to comprehensively analyze and shed light on the libertarian spirit of the Bay of Kotor poet as shown through the reflection of his epistles with a patriotic subject, with the help of a research and literary-historical method based on a combination of avail- able research on the author and on the basis of an analytical approach to Paskvalić’s literary legacy in the Italian language.

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