The Origin of Publicistic Literature in the Dalmatian-Dubrovnik Region during the Renaissance

The article discusses the formation of a publicistic tradition in Dalmatia and Du-brovnik in the 15th and 16th centuries. The place and role of the region's cities in the Renaissance culture is indicated. The factors that influenced the Dalmatian-Dubrovnik literature of the Renaissance are revealed and described. The factors were: (1) the influence of Latin verbal culture, which gave Croatian poets high artistic standards and formed the basis of national poetry; (2) the influence of the Italian language, which was actively used in the cities of Dalmatia under the Venetian rule, and in the Republic of Dubrovnik, a port city with developed trade links; (3) the spread of Glagolitic writing, which influenced the development of the national language; (4) the Slavic influences, when Dubrovnik became the center of attraction of the entire Balkan world; (5) interest in the folk epic of the South Slavs, which coincides with the formation of national consciousness after the Ottoman conquest of the Balkan Peninsula in the 14th and 15th centuries. The civil lyrics of Juraj Sizgoric and Marko Marulic, the treatises of Feliks Petancic and Bernardin Frankopan about the Turkish invasion demonstrate the strengthening of the publicistic principle in the verbal culture. The development of rhetorical genres in literature (treatises, etc.) demonstrates the formation of authentic publicism, touching upon topics that worried the public (Benedikt Kotruljevic, etc.). It is shown that the development of original literature in Latin and Croatian and the formation of the publicistic tradition in the 15 th and 16th centuries was of crucial importance for the subsequent development of the national culture and national identity of Croats. On this basis, the Illyrian movement emerged. It spread in the 1830s-1840s, when the Croatian nation was formed and national journalism was born.

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