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Jerolim Kavanjin, in Italian: Girolamo Cavagnini, (February 4, 1641 – November 29, 1714) was a Dalmatian poet who wrote mainly in Croatian language. He was from Split -then called "Spalato" in the Republic of Venice and today the main city in Dalmatian Croatia. ==Biography== He was born into a wealthy and noble family of Spalato, as a descendant of the Italian family of the ''Cavagnini''.〔( "Le castella di Spalato e Trau": Dr. Girolamo Cavagnini (p.67) )〕 He studied Law in Italy, where composed in Italian his first poems on love that unluckily have been lost. When back in Dalmatia the attorney Cavagnini worked in his hometown, but soon moved to live in Trau, where did poems in Italian and Croatian but not published. Kavanjin rose to prominence at the same time as Ignjat Đurđević (in Italian: Ignazio Giorgi): at the beginning of the 18th century. He was married to the sister of John Peter Marchi. In late 1703 Kavanjin became a member of the Illyrian Academy, that Marchi founded in the same 1703. In his summer mansion on Sutivan, on the island of Brač, where he retired after military and legislative career, Kavanjin wrote the most voluminus poetical work in the whole Croatian literature (approx. 32 500 verses): ''Poviest vanđelska bogatoga a nesretna Epuluna i ubogoga a čestita Lazara'', usually referred to by the later editors, according to the subtitle in the original, as ''Bogatstvo i uboštvo''("Richness & Poverty"). This religious-philosophical epic is poetically inconsistent but stylistically marked (it is written, beside Split Čakavian, in Ijekavian–Ikavian Štokavian and has many "italianisms"). Expressing the spirit of philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries, this "encyclopædia in verses" -according to Josip Aranza- directs its Baroque spirituality towards the cogitation on life and human essentiality in the dual nature of the human and the divine. Beside the classical humanistic, Latinate and Italian literatures (Dante), the Bible and other religious writings, and beside the historical authors (Constantine Porphyrogenitus, priest of Duklja, Mavro Orbini), writings of the Old Dubrovnik have constituted the basic Kavanjin's reading list, above others Junije Palmotić and Ivan Gundulić. Kavanjin -who looked like a dark haired Italian- identified himself with an initial pan-Slavism mixed with Dalmatia latin roots, and John Fine interprets his pan-Slavism and Dalmatianism close to have been an ethnic notion.〔When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press, 2006. P. 287. ''Besides this pan-Slavism, which produced in him the identity that came closest to being ethnic, Kavanjin exhibited the noted "Dalmatianism". This local "Dalmatian" identity was the only competitor "Slavic" had. And, after all, as he said, Dalmatia was his homeland. And two such identities could easily co-exist and both could have "ethnic" ingredients.''〕 For him the identities of slavs and neolatin dalmatia could co-exist. Kavanjin died in Split, aged 73. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jerolim Kavanjin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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