On historicity and fiction in the poem Osman by Ivan Gundulic

Ivan GunduLic (1589-1638) was one of the most preeminent poets of the Republic of Dubrovnik, the author of the epic Osman, a most significant work of Dubrovnik Literature and the most successful Slovenian Baroque poem. Osman consists of twenty chants. It was not completed, although GunduLic had worked on it until the end. The epic covers a Large historical period centered around the Battle of Khotyn of 1621 and the murder of SuLtan Osman II in 1622. The epic is imbued with distinct anti-Turkish and, simultaneously, strong religious and patriotic feelings. Osman is an important source of information about Turkish and Slavic history, the history of the Polish Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of the Lithuania, known as the PoLish-Lithuanian Union. The author focuses on Osman as a source of information about the history of the Carpathian-Dniester countries, namely those that were parts of the Kingdom of Poland and the Moldavian Principality, which was a vassal to the Ottoman Empire. The Principality of Moldova feLL under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in the early 16th century, which Lasted for three hundred years. GunduLic was inspired by the BattLe of Khotyn in which the united Polish-Cossack army defeated the Turks.

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