Pier Paolo Vergerio (the Younger) wrote his "Two Treatises of the Papal Secretary" (Actiones duae secretarii pontificii) as a fictional debate, intended for Pope Paul IV. The satirical texts, to which Vergerio subsequently added the third one, are by no means essential reading - nor are they the best of what Vergerio himself wrote in his life. However, they manage to create the impression that they bring a serious matter-of-fact debate about real dilemmas related to the Council of Trent. During the time of their writing, these dilemmas were more or less non-existent (albeit not due to Vergerio's fault but rather because of Paul's reluctance towards the Council of Trent). This paper addresses Vergerio's Actiones, trying to raise some questions about what motivated their author during the time of their writing. The paper is a deliberation about the extent of response among humanists of noerthern Italy to new nationalist utterances among German Protestants. An important finding was that deliberations of this sort, fresh in Slovenia, would need to be further thematically explored in a monograph.
COBISS.SI-ID: 43245357
Editor, author, translator, critical edition publisher. In 1556 a booklet was published in Basel at the printing office of one Oporinus (Johann Herbster, 1507-1568), which included two papers, the full title of which reads: "Should Pope Paul IV re-think about the re-convening of the Tridentine Council?" and "Can the pope with arms and power command the Protestants to accept Council decrees?" The booklet, which is in fact a document of political actvism, was reprinted in 1557 by Hans Daubmann in Königsberg, in 1559 by Valentin Otmar in Augsburg and, the same year, by Georg Rab (Lat. Corvinus) in Pfortzheim. The present book tematization of both scripts is the first critical edition of the original and the first translation with the study - after 500 years - and the first such topic of the humanistic text in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 294843648
The biography of Minka Skaberne (1882-1965), teacher and first typhlopedagogy, belongs to the set of those biographies of individuals that, albeit important to the society, were but forgotten. Initiator and founder of the first Slovenian library for the blind and a tireless co-creator, co-founder of the first Institute for the Blind of Ljubljana, Skabernewas a pioneer groundbreaker in the field of caring for the blind in Slovenia after WWI. The biographical method is definitely an important element of women's history. The contribution in German thus gives access to the biography of Minka Skaberné also to readers outside the Slovene-speaking environment, while also correcting the guilt of forgetting about her in the wider society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 67834722
The biography of lawyer, alpinist, writer, musician, botanist and humanist Julius Kugy (1858-1944) offers the image of a man who, as a child of the 19th century, tried to understand - in his own way - the world that radically changed with WWI. The cosmopolitan citizen of Trieste was bound by his lifelong passion for mountains to the Slovenian life and space in a special way. This text wasn't published in this bulletin by accident. Published by the Museum of Gorica, it is edited "on the margin", so to speak; this offers a different interpretative framework. Therefore, such biographies are a valuable correction to nationally oriented studies, and at the same time they are a testimony to a lively life on the periphery.
COBISS.SI-ID: 20697650
Based on historical sources (biographical, memoir, authorial manuscripts), this book represents the first comprehensive treatment of life and work of the Russian poet Anna A. Akhmatova in Slovenia. The biographical framework is merely means of complecting her poetic opus. In the light of some lesser known parts of her life (e.g. the so-called Tashkent period), the analysis of poetic works (especially the famous Song Without a Hero) is of particular interest, since it approaches the painful and decisive moments of the poet's life, such as complex intimate feelings, periods of inspiration and censorship. The latter are crucial for understanding Anna A. Akhmatova's poetry. An introduction to the poetics of this perhaps greatest Russian female is an essential part of the historical frescoes on literary-artistic intelligence of Russian culture in the first half of the 20th century.
COBISS.SI-ID: 277858048
By way of extensive research of the so-called phenomenon of Maxim the Greek (born Michael Trivolis, 1470), a learned Greek, who, after a philological experience in Northern Italy, and a ten-year period of monasticism on Mount Athos, and a tragic outcome of fate in Moscow Russia (died 1556) won the reputation of one of the most educated men in the early Renaissance period, Neža Zajc penetrated the international scientific area wider than Slavic (Russian), opening what is best defined as Byzantine studies in Slovenia, where this area is widely neglected. In the two-part article, published in the international scientific critical magazine for the chagiography and patristica "Scrinium", published by Brill, N. Zajc constructed an alzternative perspective on the biography of Maxim the Greek, as well as on the problem of understanding the specifics of his theological-humanistic thinking within the framework of the early Renaissance, closely related to the adequate reception of the complexity of his language. Her analysis is based on the author's original manuscripts, examined in libraries all over Europe. The sequel to this article was published as follows: Zajc. N. “Some Notes on the Life and Works of Maxim the Greek (Michael Trivolis, ca 1470 – Maksim Grek,1555/1556): Part 2: Maxim the Greek’s Slavic Idiolect”. Scrinium 12 (2016): p. 375–382.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39134253
This scientific monograph is the first cultural and historical treatise of a criminal case, reported by printed media in 1935 in Maribor. The penal case of Markuzzi and his accmplices, opened by the Maribor District Court, is still one of the most comprehensive cases kept by Maribor Provincial Archives. It reveals the meaning of smuggling and theft after WWI, especially in Slovenske gorice after the creation of the Austrian-Yugoslavian border, the post-war relations in the local community (including the strong stigma of the family with Italian roots), the personality of the charismatic smuggler Ivan Markuzzi, the advocacy of Danilo Komavlija, a refugee in Maribor, who did not agree with the public lynching of the Italian family, and the turning point in the judicial process that marked the criminal practice of the Slovenian judiciary in the first decade of the new Yugoslav state.
COBISS.SI-ID: 289310976
This paper, which received much attention in the Slovenian historical community, addresses the fate of two Styrian families between the two world wars: the wine growers of Metava and the family of a lawyer from Maribor and a political representative of the German community in Styria, Lothar Mühleisen. Among the winemakers' documents kept by their descendants, the obituary of Mühleisen, who had been the president of the Maribor local group Kulturbund and was sentenced in absentia before the Military Court in Maribor in 1945. The obituary sheds light on two families of the same turbulent and perishable space and time, but of various nationalities, and above all of different social origin. The key document is Mühleisen's letter (perhaps a draft) to the Minister of the Austrian Government in 1954, kept by the descendants; a testimony of (self-) understanding of the life of the German family / community in Maribor. The paper addresses, among other things, trauma conveyed (unconsciously) to future generations, and the realisation that post-war violence did not happen only at the level of the establishment of socialist power, but also deeply defined interpersonal relations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 42471213
In spite of the disability resulting from the wounds received in the Far East in the Battle of Tsushima (1905), the Russian naval officer Aleksandr Dmitriyev Bubnov (1883-1963) became a counter-admiral during the time of the temporary government of Alexander F. Kerensky. Just before the October Revolution, he was even one of the main personalities of the Navy of the Russian Republic. He later moved to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (later Yugoslavia), where he became a professor of military-historical subjects at the Military Naval Academy. While Russia focused primarily on the issues of maritime warfare on a tactical level, he developed a more strategic way of thinking in Yugoslavia, and wrote a trilogy about the history of the naval wars. He also became known in international circles forbeing one of the first to have predicted (shortly after WWI) the war between Japan and the United States. The book discusses his understanding of war at sea as part of an integral war; Bubnov, who started as a supporter of the ideas of Admiral Mahan, gradually turns into an independent thinker. As such, he enjoyed a reputation in the ranks of the US and British Navy.
COBISS.SI-ID: 291866368
This paper provides a typology of the relationship to music during WWI in various countries, especially in Central Europe, and in Russia, UK and USA. During this conflict, there was a ban on the performance of music by all creators of individual (hostile) countries for the first time, which indicates the totalizing and absolute effect of warfare. Some changes that resulted from the prohibition of the music of individual cultural superpowers had a more lasting effect in the introduction of new musical paradigms. A particularly obvious effect of this sort was the resistance to the music of German composers in the US. The paper also addresses the reasons for the modest representation of musical issues in the general historical discussions of WWI (especially in comparison with fine arts).
COBISS.SI-ID: 42598445