Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)  

Keywords: Keywords: Comparative literature, Croatian and Spanish Petrarquism, Descriptio mulieris, Formulaic discourse, Hanibal Lucić, Poetical discourse.

This study tries to interpret the descriptio mulieris in the Croatian and Pan-Hispanic traditional poetry in the comparative study with the Petrarquist poetry. Its common denominator is the poetic formula of the feminine beauty. A special attention is dedicated to the study of the Mediterranean traditional poetry, the poems from the Dubrovnik region and some manifestations of the Sephardic poetry, the ballad type of La bella en misa, of the Mediaeval ethos and aesthetics. The thematological study also includes the analysis of the Croatian Petrarquist poems and its poetics and poetical language, with the particular interest for the poetry of the Croatian poet Hanibal Lucić. The different poetical discourse of the “small Venus” and the “large Venus” is distinguished. It is considered in fact as the same poetical image stylistically nuanced distributed in the artistic and in the traditional poetry, inspired in the poetical and philosophical Dasein, with the specific voyage toward the revelation of the knowledge thanks to the aristocratic sensuality and the first instinct, singularly Dalmatian and at the same time Mediterranean and universal.