%0 Journal Article
%T A New Count Has Come to Town: Welcoming Oration of Ioannes Rosanus of Split in Honour of Alvise Cappello
%A Lu£¿in
%A Bratislav
%A Rosanus
%A Ioannes
%J -
%D 2019
%X Sa£¿etak The topic of this paper is the oration In aduentu clarissimi uiri Aloysii Capello, Spalatine urbis pr£¿toris dignissimi, the author of which was Ioannes Rosanus (Ivan Rozan) of Split. The speech is extant in a handwritten codex kept in the Marciana National Library in Venice, call no. Marc. Lat. Cl. XIV, 246 (= 4683), on ff. 146r-150r. It was first mentioned by Giuseppe Praga in 1930, but has never been published or subjected to scholarly study. The oration is accompanied by Rosanus¡¯s letter to Marin Sanudo the Younger (f. 145v). Taking everything into account, the text of the oration is autographic, while the epistle to Sanudo was written by another hand (cf. Fig. 1 and Fig. 2). That the oration is an autograph can be concluded from the corrections put into the text of the speech by the same hand (cf. the notes in the edition of the text appended here). These, together with the untidiness of the handwriting and certain mistakes show that we are dealing with a working copy. Little is known about Ioannes Rosanus. In 1499, Ser Ioannes Rosanus went with Ser Cyprianus the dyer (tintor) as envoy from the commoners of Split to the Venetian syndics intra Culphum Bernardo Loredan and Nicol¨° Dolfin. From the title of Ser it can be concluded that he was both well reputed and probably wealthy, which is also borne out by the circumstance of his having been selected as envoy. These two representatives of the commoners asked the syndics permission for the commoners to meet in £¿a congregation£¿, i.e., that the right that they had during the time of Count Giovanni Bollani (1481-1484) be revived. On June 30, 1499, the syndics granted the request and instructed the Split Count Marino Moro (1497-1499) accordingly. In the census of Split of 1507, Ioannes Rosanus was recorded as Ser Zuan Rosan, who lived in civitate veteri, that is, the part of Split within Diocletian¡¯s Palace. It can be seen from the oration that Rosanus had been educated in the studia humanitatis, but no other works of his are known. Still there was a certain poet Rosanus that was praised in their epigrams by Gilberto and Marco Antonio Grineo, humanists and teachers who were active in Trogir and Split around 1496 to 1501. From one of the epigrams we learn that Rosanus wrote a poetic panegyric to the £¿Venetian Moro£¿ (that is, the Split count, Marino Moro, who is known to have been, like Bollani, well inclined to the commoners). It is reasonable to conclude that Rosanus the representative of the commons, Rosanus the poet and Rosanus the orator were one and the same person. Venetian Count Alvise
%K Alvise Cappello
%K Ioannes Rosanus (Ivan Rozan)
%K Marin Sanudo the Younger
%K Split
%K ceremonial oratory
%K editio princeps
%K humanism
%K Venetian republic
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