Medo Pucić
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Medo Pucić also Orsato Pozza(March 12, 1821 - June 30, 1882) was a writer and politician from Ragusa (Dubrovnik).
He participated in movement of so-called Serb Catholics, political movement from 19th century, financed from Kingdom of Serbia.
He was a part of group of Dubrovnik gentry that identified with the idea of Serb Catholic, because they admired Serbia and wanted to see Serbia as a Piedmont of South Slavs. So, that movement had some Pan-Slavic features, but was primarily South Slavonic nation building.
Medo Pucić was descended from the House of Pucić, an old noble family of Ragusa. He attended the lyceum in Venice, where in 1841 he became acquainted with Jan Kollár. Pucić was impressed with his pan-Slavist ideas, and went on to join the Illyrian movement. From that impression of Pan-Slavism, came Medo's joining to the idea of Serb Catholics.
He studied between 1841 and 1843 in the University of Padua, and then from 1843 to 1845 he studied law in Vienna and was a Knights Hospitaller of Sovereign Order of Saint John. Pucić lived in the cities of Lucca and Parma between 1846 and 1849, and after that usually in Dubrovnik. Pucić was in active contact with cultural and political circles of Central Croatia (the banate), the rest of the Habsburg monarchy, and different countries of Europe. After 1860 when the political life in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was revived, he took part in the Serbian national movement in Dalmatia and at politics in Croatia, Pucic was a leader of the conservative faction adapted the theory of the Croatian historical right to the demands of the linguistic nationality, deriving the Serbian pretensions regarding Dubrovnik/Ragusa and Kotor/Cattaro from some very convoluted legalistic explanations, as well as the need the unification of all the south-slavics lands within the Habsburg Monarchy around Croatia.
Pucić started writing poetry in 1840. He was initially writing romantic lyrics, but later moved towards a more national epic style. Some of his more important works include:
- Slovjanska antologija iz rukopisah dubrovačkih pjesnikah, 1844.
- Talijanke, 1849. (elegies)
- Spomenici srpski od godine 1395. do 1423., book I, Belgrade 1858.
- Dei canti popolari illirici, discorso detto Adam Mickiewicz.... tradotto da O. Pozza, con un appendice dei testi illirici citati dall autore(Zara 1860, Battara 8°)
- Giovanni Gundulich. vita, sta in Favilla giornale Triestino. 1843. N°XIX, p.293-301.
- Spomenici srpski od godine 1395. do 1423., book II, Belgrade 1862.
- Pjesme, 1862. and 1879.
- Karađurđevka 1864.
- Kasnachich G.(Giovanni) Augusto e O.P (Orsato Pozza)sugli slavi. Sta nel regionale la Favilla, Ann. 1842. storia, alfabeto del slavi - storia e poesia - un canto popolari della Servia - canti pololari - Il manuscrito de Kraljodvor - Ann. 1843 Proverbj pololari - Etnografia - Statistica delle popolazioni slavi nel 1842 - costume slavi le nozze - Adamo Mickievich - Dositeo Obradivich - Giovanni Gundulich una lezione del profess. Mickievich - Ann. 1844 Andrea Cubranovich -Questi studij continuati nel giornale Dalmazia 1847 n. p.43 furono poi continuati sotto la direzione E.A. Kaznacich e Baldovino de Bizarro.
- Le nozze di Platone, o dialogo dell amore, tradotto nell´occasione delle nozze di sua sorella Anna (con Marino Giorgi) dal Conte Orsato Pozza, Trieste, Lloyd, Austriaco 1857..
- Compendio della storia di Ragusa dall´originale italiano di G. Resti per cura di O. Pozza, Zara, Battara, 1856.
In 1868, he moved to Belgrade to become a teacher to the young prince Milan Obrenović IV until he came of age in 1872. He returned to Dubrovnik in 1874, and played an important role in the cultural life of the city in the 1870s.
Pucić's pan-Slavic idea (or pan-South-Slavic) was based on the principle of unification of Croats with the Slavic tradition in Dubrovnik/Ragusa, but Pucić believed that all speakers of the Štokavian dialect are nationally Serbs. Pucić particularly respected the Principality of Serbia as the liberator of South Slavs from the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
Pucić wrote lyrical and epic poems, patriotic lyric poetry, political essays and historical studies. The preferred motive of his work was the history of Dubrovnik and the Republic of Ragusa. He also translated literary works from several European languages into his own Dubrovnik language, which he declaratively considered Serbian, but which was at that and later time (until the dissolution of Yugoslavia) widely understood as a hodgepodge quasi-unity of a so-called Serbo-Croatian, and translated various Croatian and Serbian works into Italian, which is when he used the name Orsatto Pozza.
[edit] See also
- House of Pucić
- Niko Pucić
- Rafo Pucić
