Gašparotijev Žitek svetog Hijeronima

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Gašparoti’s Žitek svetog Hijeronima (Life of St. Jerome)

Sažetak
Najopsežniji zbornik svetačkih legendi dopreporodne hrvatske književnosti – Cvet sveteh ali živlenje i čini svecev (u 4 knjige, tiskane 1752., 1756., 1760. i 1761. godine) – kajkavskoga hagiografskog pisca, pavlina Hilariona Gašparotija (1714.-1762.) sadrži i životopis svetoga Jeronima. Tekst Žitek svetog Hijeronima (Cvet sveteh, knj. III.) nalazi se na dan 30. rujna te sadrži opširno razvedenu hagiografiju u kojoj je detaljno opisan Jeronimov život, rad na prevođenju Svetoga pisma, brojna svečeva čudesa učinjena za života i poslije smrti. Premda se Gašparoti u sastavljaju zbornika Cvet sveteh služio brojnim i raznovrsnim izvorima i teško je pronaći moguće direktne predloške njegova hagiografskog djela, usporedna analiza pokazala je da postoje tekstualne podudarnosti Jeronimova Žiteka i Jeronimovih životopisa u Zlatnoj legendi (13. st.), kao i u Canisiusovu latinskom prijevodnom djelu Flos Sanctorum sive Vitae Sanctorum in modum concionum scriptae Petro Ribadineira, soc. Jesu (Colonia, 1700.). Od domaćih izvora, uočene su sličnosti Žiteka s Jeronimovom biografijom u Cvitu svetih Franje Glavinića. Gašparotijev Žitek svetog Hijeronima pokazuje se kao važna karika duge i bogate književne tradicije hrvatskih legendi o svetom Jeronimu.

Abstract
The most comprehensive collection of saint legends of Pre-Revival Croatian literature – Cvet sveteh ali živlenje i čini svecev (Anthology of the Holy or the Lives and Acts of Saints, in 4 books, printed in 1752, 1756, 1760, and 1761) by Kajkavian hagiographic writer, Pauline monk Hilarion Gašparoti (1714-1762) contains, amongst others, the biography of St. Jerome. Gašparoti collected biographies of saints worshiped »in our Croatian or Slavic land« (Cro. »vu našem Horvackem iliti Slovenskem orsagu«). The text of Žitek svetog Hijeronima (The Life of Saint Jerome, in Cvet sveteh, book III) appears under 30th September, and contains a comprehensive hagiography with a detailed description of St. Jerome’s life, his work on translating the Holy Scriptures, and the numerous miracles he performed in his lifetime and after his death. As with Gašparoti’s other hagiographies, his methodology in compiling St. Jerome’s biography was meticulous and based on in-depth knowledge of Croatian and international hagiographic literature. Gašparoti used many diverse sources for his Cvet sveteh anthology and it is difficult to definitively ascertain its immediate models. However, a comparative analysis has uncovered textual correspondences between Gašparoti’s hagiography of St. Jerome and the biographies published in Zlatna legenda (The Golden Legend) from the 13th century and in Canisius’s Latin translation of Flos Sanctorum sive Vitae Sanctorum in modum concionum scriptae Petro Ribadineira, soc. Jesu (Cologne, 1700). As for Croatian sources, similarities exist between Gašparoti’s Žitek and St. Jerome’s biography in Franjo Glavinić’s Cvit svetih (Anthology of the Holy). Gašparoti does not reproduce his sources verbatim, but does occasionally quote from them, often employing creative interpolations and extensive explanations to produce a novel coherent hagiographic text. Overall, Gašparoti’s Žitek svetog Hijeronima proves to be an important link in the long and rich literary tradition of Croatian legends about St. Jerome.