Latin dedicatory poems in the introduction to The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola
Keywords:
Johann Weikhard Valvasor, The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, Latin honorary epigrams, literary address, Katharina R. von Greiffenberg, Pavao Ritter-Vitezović, Johann Gregor Dolničar, Johann Baptist Petermann, Johannes Gabriel Majer, Josef Sisentschelli (Siezenheim), Erasmus E. Francisci, NurembergAbstract
The introduction to Valvasor’s The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola contains numerous Latin poems–partly bilingual, with translations into Slovene or Croatian–of which only the Croatian elegies by Pavao Ritter-Vitezović have received some attention in the recent years. Other poems have remained more or less overlooked, including, for instance, the epigram by the Ljubljana-based solicitor and proponent of the founding of the Academia Operosorum, J. G. Dolničar, who conceived of his short eulogy to the author as a court case. The Applausus, deeply rooted in the classical tradition and composed by the pseudonymous Josef Sisentschelli, has become famous only in its Slovenian version as “the first literary apopemptic in Slovenian language”. The panegyric elegy by the Carniolan physician Petermann and the hexametric poem by Johannes Gabriel Majer are yet to receive scholarly attention as well.
