Teoretičari, hodočasnici, činovnici: tri vrste renesansnih putopisnih tekstova
Theoreticians, pilgrims, clerks: Three forms of Renaissance travelogue texts

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses several specific forms of Renaissance travelogues in the sixteenth century. The introduction provides a short survey of the development of travelogue genre in the Antiquity and Middle Ages. Special attention is paid to the pilgrimage texts, a form that did not change substantially in the Renaissance although some influences of the hodoeporical texts (highly elaborate travel theory specific for the Renaissance period) can be noted. The author analyzes two pilgrimage texts by Croatian authors, Bartol Đurđević and Bonifacije Stijepović Drakolica, as illustrations of this old travelogue form. The second part of the essay focuses on the examination of a system of hodoeporical or apodemical texts, a large series of theoretical texts. Some of them are similar to travel manuals as they aim to classify all extant aspects of travel, enlighten, advise and in every way accompany the Renaissance traveller on his way. In the third part, the author examines administrative travel notes, some of them written for political leaders and some by church administrators, bishops or parish priests. The article concludes with Justin Stagl’s thoughts on the history of travel as, basically, a history of curiosity.

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