MORLACI KAO EKONOMSKO DRUGO U DJELIMA ALBERTA FORTISA I IVANA LOVRIĆA
THE MORLACCHI AS AN ECONOMIC OTHER IN THE WORKS OF ALBERTO FORTIS AND IVAN LOVRIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to offer new perspectives in the analysis of Morlacchism as a discourse within the methodological and theoretical determinants of historical imagology, shown in the examples of two well-known educational sources: Put po Dalmaciji/Travelling throughout Dalmatia (1774) by Alberto Fortis and Bilješke o putu po Dalmaciji i životu Stanislava Sočivice/Notes on the travelling throughout Dalmatia and the Life of Stanislav Sočivica (1776) by Ivan Lovrić. Although historical imagology opened up some new perspectives in the study of Vlach / Morlachs people within historiography, much of the imagology work did not include an economic view of Morlacchism, but rather focused on concepts such as civilization, barbarism and »noble savagery« without the critical questioning of these concepts. The main focus of this paper is the analysis of Morlacchism as a discourse with a special emphasis on physiocracy as an economic doctrine whose influence can be seen in the texts of Fortis and Lovric. Morlachs as economic others on the text level were analyzed through topological economic irrationality and backwardness and through additional analysis of the image of the coastal population of Dalmatia. This complex picture of the Morlachs as economic others is then positioned within intertextual relations: between the texts of Fortis and Lovric, the famous text of Tableau Economicque by François Quesnay and the texts of the famous Dalmatian physiocrats. The last level of analysis shows the way in which Morlacchism fits into the political and economic context of Venetian Dalmatia, with a focus on structural changes and certain economic measures carried out by the Venetian and Dalmatian patricians.

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