STILSKE OSOBITOSTI POSITIONES FRA BAZILIJA PANDŽIĆA
STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FR. BAZILIJE PANDŽIĆ’S POSITIONES

Summary/Abstract: Fr. Bazilije Pandžić, a Bosnian and Herzegovinian historian, archivist and philologist, is well known for his excellent and refined expression in Latin language. He wrote in Latin language historical reviews, annals and postiones(positions), i.e. reports about life of some persons with the purpose of their beatification or canonization (about Nikola Tavelić, Beatrice de Silva and Liberat Weiss). Positions, despite their strict form, have quite a lot of biographical elements, which makes them stylistically richer than scientific historical works. They allow the author more stylistic freedom and creativity. We shall take Pandžić’s position about Nikola Tavelić (1961) as a representative work for his prose expression in Latin language, since it is his only position completely written in Latin. The paper analyzes stylistic characteristics of position, its purpose, structure and content. The paper aims at reaching an insight into the excellence of Pandžić’s Latin prose expression as well as linguistic and stylistic processes that influence it. Based on the analysis of his „positio“ we come to the conclusion that in addition to Pandžić’s features as a historian, scientist and professional, the features of a crafty Latin scholar are also visible.

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