%0 Journal Article %T A Polemical Piece by Alberto Fortis: Memoria sopra l¡¯isola di Corzola %A Malinar %A Smiljka %J - %D 2015 %X Sa£¿etak Memoria sopra l¡¯isola di Corzola, a report that the natural historian and travel writer Alberto Fortis delivered at a meeting of the Accademia di Scienze Lettere e Arti in Padua on December 12, 1782, which was published by Professor £¿arko Mulja£¿i£¿, details Fortis¡¯ stay on the island of Kor£¿ula. The reason for this stay was the theories of Neapolitan scholar Ciro Minervini on the allegorical meaning of Homer¡¯s epics and the volcanic origin of Kor£¿ula. In this paper Fortis¡¯ report will be presented as a polemical and didactic text and will be supplemented with certain information about the circumstances in which it was written %K Alberto Fortis %K Kor£¿ula %K Ciro Saverio Minervini %K Homer %K Ulysses %K allegorical interpretation of myths %K vulcanological theses %K autooptical examination %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=248220