Književnost ili povijest? Knjižica o opisu putova u Tursku: Feliks Petančić i njegov renesansni bestseler
Literature or history? The itineribus in Turciam libellus: Feliks Petančić and his Renaissance bestseller

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses whether a Renaissance travelogue text De itineribus quibus Turcae sint aggrediendi (or in some editions), writen by Croatian latinist Felix Petančić belongs to historiographic source, i.e. practical antiturcic (in today’s words, geostrategic) manual, or rather to literature. Introduction provides a short survey of Petančić’s life and work, and the central part of the essay focuses on the analysis of the text, its parts and its naratological characteristics. The final part of the essay is dedicated to the reception of the text in the Renaissance. Petančić was one of the most popular Croatian Renaissance authors: his study on how and where to attack Turks was reprinted in many collections of Renaissance apodemical texts even two hundred and seventy years aft er his death in twenty two editions.).

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