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The repeated verse-endings in the epic De vita et gestis Christi by Jakov Bunić

The repeated verse-endings in the epic De vita et gestis Christi by Jakov Bunić. Petra Šoštarić Department of Classics Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb. a 1,000,000 $ question: Who is the author of the first Croatian epic?. Marko Marulić Ivan Mažuranić Jakov Bunić

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The repeated verse-endings in the epic De vita et gestis Christi by Jakov Bunić

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  1. The repeated verse-endings in the epic De vita et gestis Christi by Jakov Bunić Petra Šoštarić Department of Classics Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Zagreb

  2. a 1,000,000 $ question:Who is the author of the first Croatian epic? • Marko Marulić • Ivan Mažuranić • Jakov Bunić • no Croat ever wrote an epic • frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn

  3. 10049 verses • 494 repeated endings • where did they come from? • did Bunić borrow from others? • invent his own? both? • how could we ever know???

  4. the results • 1. Virgil – 93/494 repeated verse-endings – 18,8 % • 2. Ovid – 42/494 – 8,5% • 3. Lucretius – 24/494 – 4% ..... 8. Paulinus Nolanus – 13/494 – 2%

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