Petar Kanavelić

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Petar Kanavelić (Peter Kanavelic) (27 December 1637 – 16 January 1719) was a Croatian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest Croatian writers of the 17th century.[1] He signed himself as Pietro Canaveli or De Canavellis.[2] He died in Korcula in 1719.

Biography

Petar Kanavelic was born in Korčula, Republic of Venice, now modern Croatia, the last male descendant of an old, wealthy and distinguished noble family of the town. In Korcula he attended local schools. He undertook clerical studies. He also studied law in Padua. This was a quiet common practice for the time for Dalmatian intellectuals. He worked in a series of town offices, mostly in legal matters, trade and the management of property. He was also was a teacher, lawyer and in 1665 became a member of the Great Council. In Zadar (Zara), he was Chancellor of the Venetian Governor General of Dalmatia, C. Cornaro and A. Priuli (1665–68). In 1673 he became the representative of the Curzola community in Venice (Korcula was mosly referred to back then as Curzola [3]).

Literary activity

Kanavelic's literary work is one of the widest and most diverse in the 17th century. He wrote poems, epic works and songs in Croatian and Italian. He occasionally composed wedding songs. The oldest preserved traces of Kanavelic's literary work was a written confirmation from 1660 for which he was paid 12 Lira for performing the song on the occasion of the arrival of General A. Cornaro, in the town of Korcula. This is one of the oldest recorded fee payments in the history of Croatian literature. During his stay in Zadar, Kanavelic was in Split (Spalato) in 1667 and participated in the Italian comedy La moglie di Quattro Care which was by Venetian librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. He traveled throughout Dalmatia and the Republic of Ragusa. There he gained a status within the Dubrovnik (Ragusa) community who were mostly the leading writers and intellectuals of their time (Nikola Bunic, Baro Bettera, Sisko Gundulic, George Lucic). Later he became a member of the Akademije Ispraznijeh. His works have been translated in Italian, Hungarian and Polish.

There is a primary school named after him in the town of Korcula.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hrvatski Biografski Leksikon
  2. ↑ Vjesnik za arheologiju i historiju dalmatinsku, Vol.16-17, 1893
  3. ↑ Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic by Andrew A. Paton

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