Miroslav Krle？a’s Assessment of Frane Petri？

Sa？etak Opus of Miroslav Krle？a (1893–1981) contains his knowledge and assessment of Frane Petri？ (1529–1597) and the characteristics of his works, and it also points out the sources of Krle？a’s knowledge of Petri？. Krle？a revealed his knowledge of the characteristics of Petri？’s writings in four of his texts written in the period from 1940 to 1953. First of them was the essay “O poeziji” (“On Poetry”), which Krle？a wrote in 1940, but published it as late as 1967. Relying on claims from Croce’s Estetica, he presented the characteristics of Petri？’s understanding of poetry, with special regard to Petri？’s critique of Aristotle’s doctrine on subject matters of poetry, and the reasons why Petri？ criticized Aristotle’s attitude that imitation is the source of poetry. The second text in which Krle？a expressed his views on Petri？ and the characteristics of his opus was “O na？em dramskom répertoireu” (“On Our Drama Repertoire”) from 1948. In that text, Krle？a took over or paraphrased records on Petri？ which he found out from two sources: from an entry on Petri？ written by Emilij Laszowsky for the work Znameniti i zaslu？ni Hrvati (The Eminent and Deserving Croats) from 1925, and from an article “Filozofija u Hrvatskoj” (“Philosophy in Croatia”) from 1943, written by Kruno Krsti？. However, the article “On Our Drama Repertoire” contains Krle？a’s own statements regarding Petri？. He emphasized that Petri？ was “the most universal name of our literary Cinquecento,” that he was “a polyhistor and an omniscient person,” that he was not satisfied “with the Christianization of Greek thought, done by the Church, when it baptized Aristotle using Saint Thomas,” but Krle？a also misjudged Petri？ being “an apologist of the medieval right-wing.” In the third text, which is actually a manuscript, “Filipovi？ Vladimir o Marku Maruli？u” (“Filipovi？ Vladimir on Marko Maruli？”) from 1950, Krle？a stressed that Petri？’s writings exalted him to be “our loudest Name of Cinquecento,” while in the essay “O nekim problemima Enciklopedije” (“On Some Problems of the Encyclopedia”) from 1953 he considered Petri？ one of the “great names”. Krle？a’s texts in which he mentioned Petri？ also increase the number of bibliographic units on Petri？. Previous bibliographies on Petri？ do not contain a single bibliographic unit from which it is possible to find out that Krle？a ever wrote anything regarding that Croatian Renaissance philosopher. This paper proves that there should have been at least four bibliographic units