НИКОЛA TOMA3EO И СРПСКA НAРОДНA ПОEЗИЈA
NICCOLO TOMMASEO AND THE SERBIAN FOLK POETRY

Summary/Abstract: Interest in the Serbian folk poetry, and in the folk poetry in general, is one of the significant elements of Tommaseo’s poetics. This paper views Tommaseo’s work and ideas in the context of the political and esthetic ideas of his time, presenting Tommaseo’s work as a turning-point in the study of folk poetry in Italy. His anthologies, collections and translations are part of the search for the simple, truthful and natural poetry. He contributed not only to bringing together the Italian and Serbian culture, but also these two with the Greek culture. The paper discusses in detail two, in their nature different collections of folk poems: The Illyrian Poems (Canti Illirici, 1842), the anthology of Serbian folk poems in the Italian translation, and the unpublished collection of Dalmatian folk poems. Special attention is dedicated to Tommaseo’s typology and its principles, his comments and their theoretical and value implications.

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