Unpublished Latin poems of Petar Boždarović

Petar Boždarović (Dubrovnik, 1647. – Rim, 1684.) hrvatski je pravnik, diplomat, pjesnik, pisac i kanonik crkve svetog Jeronima u Rimu. Nakon doktorata, vrijeme provodi kao knjižničar i auditor Giambattiste De Luce, a početkom osamdesetih godina sedamnaestog stoljeća obavlja diplomatske poslove za Dubrovačku Republiku. Što se tiče njegovih djela najviše je poznat po svojim teološkim, pravnim i povijesnim spisima, posebice onima o antičkim spomenicima u Genovi. Najmanje se pak spominje kao pjesnik, njegovi se biografski podaci rijetko pronalaze u literaturi i biografijama, a sva su njegova djela uglavnom razasuta po rukopisima prijatelja i nasljednika. Stoga je cilj ovog rada prije svega objaviti prijepis dvije Boždarovićeve pjesme u rukopisu, Pjesmu u čast svetog Franje Ksaverskog i Odu Ivanu Paštriću, prikazati Boždarovićev život i književni rad i pružiti uvid u književni kontekst doba u kojem je stvarao.Petar Boždarović (Dubrovnik, 1647. – Rome, 1684.) is croatian lawyer, diplomat, poet, writer and canon of the Church saint Jerome in Rome. After his doctorate, he was Giambattista’s librarian and auditor. In the early eighties of the seventeenth century, he performed some diplomatic duties for the Republic of Ragusa. As for his works, he is best known for his theological, legal and historical writings, especially those on ancient monuments in Genoa. He is least mentioned as a poet, his biographical information is rarely found in literature and biographies, and all his works are mostly scattered among the manuscripts of friends and heirs. Therefore, the aim of this work is first of all to publish a transcription of two Boždarović's poems in manuscript, the Poem in honor of St. Francis Xavier and Ode to Ivan Paštrić, to present Boždarović's life and literary work and to provide an insight into the literary context of the era in which he created