Polonofilski ideologemi i mitologemi u hrvatskoj baroknoj književnosti
Polonophilic Ideologemes and Mythologemes in the Croatian Baroque Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this article is polonophilia – the love for the Polish people and the glorification of anything Polish in the Croatian baroque literature. After a short historic overview in which the attitude of the Croatian humanists towards the Polish state and its people is described, this essay focuses on the works of the three Dubrovnik baroque poets – Ivan Gundulić, Petar Kanavelić, and Petar Bogašinović– all of whom addressed Polish themes. Poland is best represented in the canonic and classic work of the Croatian baroque, Gundulić’s epic poem Osman (written in the second and the third decades of the seventeenth century). It describes the battle at Hoćim in 1621 and the death of the sultan Osman II in Constantinople a year later. Bogašinović’s epic work as well as the two poems by Kanavelić are written in celebration of Jan Sobieski as the liberator of Vienna – and all of Europe – from the barbarians.

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