Summary
Robert Plersch: Izpiszavanye xivlenya i csinina Napoleona Czeszara Franczuzah i Kralya od Italie
Translation Antun Nagy.
Very rare, the first published book about Napoleon Bonaparte in the Croatian language.
A panel with a portrait of Napoleon.
The book was printed during the Illyrian provinces, i.e. the period in which Napoleon ruled part of Croatia countries.
Antun Nagy (Požega, January 14, 1774 - Vojvodina, 1847), Croatian writer.
He finished law in Pest. He worked as a professor of grammar and history at the Zagreb Academy, and from 1809 he worked as a censor and auditor of books in Buda.[1] He wrote literary works and poems, translated, published calendars, and in 1818 even tried to print a newspaper. Through his activities, he advocated for a unique literary language and in some way was a forerunner of the Illyrian movement. He translated the works in a mixture of Kajkavian and Štokavian-Ikavian speech.
His most famous work is "Writing the life and deeds of Napoleon..." (Izpiszavanye xivlenya i csinina Napoleona czeszara Franczuzah i kralya od Italie: from his narodgyen to the time of the szkloplyenogo peace in Tilsit / from nimachkogo to the vernacular translated by Antun Nagy) which was printed in Zagreb 1810
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