Crtice iz talijanske knjizevnosti u “Povjesti hrvatske knjizevnosti u Dalmaciji i Dubrovniku” Milorada Medinija

Persida Lazarevic Di Giacomo: ITALIAN LITERARY PRODUCTION IN MILORAD MEDINI’S HISTORY OF CROATIAN LITERATURE IN DALMATIA AND DUBROVNIK (1902). This paper analyzes the place accorded to Italian literature in the first book of the History of Croatian Literature in Dalmatia and Dubrovnik (Povjest hrvatske književnosti u Dalmaciji i Dubrovniku, 1902) by Croatian literary historian Milorad Medini (1874-1938). As he does in many of his other works, here too Medini takes Italian literature as a reference point for his larger discussion but in this work there is a more articulated and structured presentation of the history of Italian literature. Medini provides the contextualized history of a significant period of Italian literature, dominated by figures such as Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. This contextualized history of Italian literature is an integral part of Medini’s broad approach to Croatian literary history.