Modernity as the most important factor of publicity of epistolary by Marin Dr?i?

the present study is devoted to the little-studied topic of the development of epistolary journalism in the work of Marin Dr?i? in the mid-16th century, when the Renaissance literature of the Dubrovnik Republic emerged. M. Dr?i?'s letters addressed to Cosimo I Medici and his son are considered for the first time in domestic literary studies, revealing the processes occurring in society and in man of the Renaissance in the Dalmatian-Dubrovnik region. M. Dr?i?'s epistolary covers the problems of the state, judicial procedure, church activity, and the social status of the local population. Two editions of M. Dr?i?'s letters, translated from Italian into the writer's native language, are considered for the first time. One edition was published in the twentieth century in Belgrade in 1963, and the other in the twenty-first century in Zagreb in 2011. The latter analyzes newly found letters in 2006 in the State Archive of Florence, from the contents of which it becomes clear that Dr?i? received replies to his messages, although it was previously thought that they were ignored by the addressee. The judicial processes analyzed in Dr?i?'s letters are covered in his plays The Miser and Arkulin. One of the themes addressed by the writer in his letters is the denunciation of the Dubrovnik rulers' avarice and their loss of moral values. Their emotional content reveals new facets of the writer's personality, contributing to the understanding of his work. Thus, thanks to these letters, the processes of the formation of M. Dr?i?'s journalism are investigated, the degree of their study is clarified, and new content meanings are revealed, taking into account the theoretical achievements of modern literary studies.

journalism, epistolary genre, literature, state, legal proceedings, politics, Renaissance, correspondence, context