Antonio Rosaneo (Korčula, 30 October 1524 – probably Korčula, c. 1580?), a member of a patrician family from Korčula and the archdeacon of the Korčula cathedral chapter, in August 1571 led a successful defense of the city of Korčula, on the eponymous island, from an attack of the Ottoman fleet under the command of Occhiali (Uluj Ali, pasha of Algiers); the operations were a prelude to the Battle of Lepanto, fought in the Ionian Sea in October 1571. The Korčula event was seen as miraculous, because there was no Venetian military presence on the island, and the city was defended by some 150 local people. Later Rosaneo described the event in a Latin history under the title Vauzalis sive Occhialinus, Algerii Prorex, Corcyram Melaenam terra marique oppugnat nec expugnat. Relatio historica Antonii Rosenei. The history is preserved in six manuscripts, it exists in at least two versions (one dedicated to Nicolò da Ponte as Doge of Venice; da Ponte was in office 1578–1585), it has been translated into Italian and Croatian and published six times from 1871 on (there are three editions of Latin text, but none of them takes into consideration all manuscripts). Until now there have been few interpretations of Rosaneo's work, and it had been considered as a document of local history, a memorial to courage and piety of the people of Korčula. Rosaneo, however, took much care to compose a non-fiction literary work in Latin. My claim is that his writing produces Korčula as a social space, and that new insights will be gained if we read Vauzalis sive Occhialinus... from that aspect, along the lines of Henri Lefebvre's La Production de l'espace (1974) and its application to Pindar's choral lyric in Kurke and Neer Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology (2019).
The humanist Marinus Becichemus (born in Shkoder, probably in 1468, and died in Padua in 1526) was a pupil of Giovanni Calfurnio and Cristofor Barzizza in Brescia in about 1484, and from 1500 was a teacher in Venice, Padua, Brescia. Before that, from 1492 to 1496 (and afterwards, from 1508 to 1510), Becichemus was a teacher at the Dubrovnik humanist school. On May 1495, he dedicated to the Dubrovnik Senate the philological treatise Ovidianae annotationes, published three decades later in P. Ouidii Nasonis Heroides, ed. Nicolaus Scoelsius, Venetiis: Ioannis Tacuini de Tridino, 1525. In this treatise he notes in some twenty-five places lectiones variantes of the text of Ovid’s Heroides, which are provided (so he says) by “ancient” manuscripts (antiquissimi codices) in the possession of “the poet Ivan Gučetić”, “the poet Ilija Crijević” and a certain “Menčetić”. Becichemus compares the readings provided by codices Ragusini with readings of the codices owned by a colleague of Brescia (qui Brixiae profitentur). These philological notes witness to the manuscript culture of humanist Dubrovnik, confirming that at least three Dubrovnik patricians in about 1495 possessed rather old codices of Ovid’s Heroides, and enable the consideration of the place of these codices in the transmission of the text of the Heroides.
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