PORTRETUL UNUI NEAM: CAPTIVUS SEPTEMCASTRENSIS, PRINCEPS CANTEMIRIUS

👤Author

Name: Ioana Costa
Affiliation: Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine, Universitatea din București; Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române.

📄Article

Citation Recommendation: COSTA, Ioana. „Portretul unui neam: Captivus Septemcastrensis, princeps cantemirius”. In: RITL, New Series, X, No. 1-4, January-December 2016, p.  195-199.
Titlul: PORTRETUL UNUI NEAM: CAPTIVUS SEPTEMCASTRENSIS, PRINCEPS CANTEMIRIUS
Title: AN ETHNIC PORTRAIT: CAPTIVUS SEPTEMCASTRENSIS, PRINCEPS CANTEMIRIUS
Pages: 195 – 199
Language: Romanian
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2016/10_I_Costa.pdf

Abstract: The Romanian literature written in Latin offers two extended portraits of the Ottoman world: besides the famous Historia Othmanica of Dimitrie Cantemir, there is Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequicia Turcorumi, composed by a writer from Sebes, known under several names (Georg Captivus Septemcastrensis, Georgius de Hungaria, The Romosan Student). The explicit Christian perspective and, nevertheless, the direct knowledge of the Ottoman realia are elements that connect the two writings, separated by a century and a half of impetuous history. Related to different moments of the Ottoman Empire, the two works, belonging to authors placed in totally opposed positions (slave and prince), ought to have a parallel lecture.

Keywords: Dimitrie Cantemir, Historia Othmanica, Georg Captivus Septemcastrensis, Tractatus, Ottoman Empire

Bibliography:

Cantemir Dimitrie, 2015: Istoria măririi şi decăderii Curţii othmane, ed. bilingvă, Octavian Gordon, Florentina Nicolae, Monica Vasileanu (ed.), Ioana Costa (trad.), cuvânt înainte Eugen Simion, studiu introductiv Ştefan Lemny, Bucureşti, Academia Română – Fundaţia Naţională pentru Ştiinţă şi Artă.

 Georgius de Hungaria, 1993: Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequicia Turcorum, Reinhard Klockow (ed.), Köln, Weimar, Wien, Böhlau.