Summary
Ivan Lovrić: Notes on the journey through Dalmatia by Abbot Albert Fortis and the Life of Stanislav Sočivica
"Lovrić called his book notes on Fortis's travelogue... It is truly a new treatment of the same subject and a supplement to Fortis's travelogue. Lovrić's notes on folk customs, together with the life of Stanislav Sočivica, are considerable folklore material and a fairly detailed picture of the life of a certain part of our people in the 18th century, at that time we don't have any from any of our other regions...Lovrić was not only a describer, but also a critical observer of the people's life. Although he wrote in Italian, he belongs to the ranks of our writers who, in the second half of the 18th century, carried out in our countries on a more modest scale the work of criticism of traditional institutions, which the great Enlightenment movement carried out on a large scale throughout Europe." - from Mihovil Kombol
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