ГЛАВНИ ПРЕДЛОЖАК И ИЗВОР ПОДАТАКА О АНТИЦИ СЛОВА ДИОНИСИЈА НОВАКОВИЋА
ON THE MAIN MODEL AND SOURCE OF DATA FROM THE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY OF DIONISIJE NOVAKOVIĆ’S SLOVO

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers the answer on the question how Dionisije Novaković (c.1705-1767) made so numerous and so rare classical references in his Slovo o pohvalah i polzje nauk svobodnih (Speech on the glory and usefulness of liberal arts, 1742), which is the basic document from the period when the tradition of the classical humanism was in process of adoption in the schools and the literature of the Serbs. Although Novaković was highly educated in the tradition of the classical humanism, the content of his library and his exclusively theological intellectual preoccupations do not suggest that composing this speech he used directly all of the classical sources. Previous researchers thought that Novaković’s model might be among the same type academic speeches delivered in the grammar school and the theological academy in Kiev where he had studied. The search for such works certainly will bring some useful information but the dilemma about Novaković’s knowledge of all classical data in his Slovo is to be solved first-hand on the other side, comparing this speech with the famous speeches with similar topic by the 16th cent, humanist Marcus Antonius Muretus.

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