TY - BOOK ID - 1624678 TI - M. Maruli Delmatae Davidias AU - Marulus, Marcus AU - Marcovich, Miroslav AU - Brill PY - 2006 VL - 33 SN - 9004149635 9789004149632 9786611398798 1281398799 9047408918 9789047408918 DB - UniCat KW - Neo-Latin literature KW - David KW - Poetry KW - Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Latin epic poetry, Medieval and modern KW - Latin poetry, Medieval and modern KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1624678 AB - The Christian monumental historic-heroic epic Davidiad is the masterpiece of the prolific Croat Humanist Marko Marulić (Marcus Marulus, 1450-1524). The poem, comprising 6765 Latin hexameters, and divided into 14 books, was never published, and eventually even thought to be lost. Marulić's autograph resurfaced in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin, although it had been heavily damaged during the huge fire in January 1904. For the present edition the author has collated the original manuscript in Turin, made additional corrections, adopting the suggestions of Veljko Gortan, and reduced his first edition (1957, Mérida) to an absolutely necessary minimum. He has also enclosed a brief Vita Maruli , written by Marulić's contemporary Latin poet of Split, Franjo Božičević (Franciscus Natalis, 1469-1542). ER -