JOURNAL VOL. 44, 45/6 & 47

VOLUMES 44, 45/46 AND 47 OF THE JOURNAL OF CROATIAN STUDIES APPEAR

The Croatian Academy of America has issued 4 volumes of the Journal of Croatian Studies since July 2010.

Volume 44 contains the following articles: “William Feller (1906-1970): An Outstanding Croatian American Mathematician,” by Darko Žubrinć, “Three Alphabets Used in the Printing of Croatian Reformation Books in Germany,” by Vinko Grubišić, “Migration History of the Italo-Croatians of Molise to Western Australia,” by John Felix Clissa, “Brother’s Keeper: The Surveillance of American Croats by the Federal Bureau of Investigation During World War II,” by Jure Krišto, “Canadian Ethnic Studies (1969-2003) and Polyphony (1977-2000) as Sources for the Croatian Ethnocultural Community in Canada: An Annotated Index,” by Stan Granic, and “Forward to Krsto Hegedušić’s The Drava Valley Motifs,” by Miroslav Krleža (translated by Vladislav Beronja).  The Volume also contains book reviews of Josip Zoretić’s Goli Otok: Hell in the Adriatic (reviewed by Brian Gallagher), Vinko Brešić’s Kritike (reviewed by Vinko Grubišić) and reports on the Academy’s 49th Annual General Assembly and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration as well as obituaries of departed Academy members Andrew F. Lovrich, Matthew Z. Markotić and Juraj (George) Šutija.

Volumes 45-46 and Volume 47 are the first two parts of a trilogy of issues related to the translations of Croatian Renaissance poetry, plays and prose, edited by guest editors Vladimir Bubrin and Vinko Grubišić.  The Volumes contain texts in their original Croatian with a translation into English and a modern Croatian language version.

Double Volumes 45-46 contain the texts of a selection of Croatian Renaissance plays by Marko Marulić, Mavro Vetranović, Džore Držić, Hanibal Lucić, Nikola Nalješković, Marin Držić and Martin Benetović.  The Volume contains a bio-bibliography of each of the playwrights.  The Volume also contains book reviews of Boris Senker’s Bard u Iliriji: Shakespeare u hrvatskom kazalištu and Slobodan P. Novak’s, Milutin Tatarin’s, Mirjana Mataija’s and Leo Rafolt’s Leksikon Marina Držića (both reviewed by Vinko Grubišić), Luko Pateljak’s Marin Držić, Dundo Maroje: U čast 500-godišnijicu rođenje Marina Držića and M.N. Drobysheva, Dalmatinsko-Dubrovnitskoe Vozrozhdenie: Tvorchestvo Marina Drzhicha (both reviewed by Vladimir Bubrin) and Bruno Šišić’s Dubrovnik Renaissance Gardens: Genesis and Design Characteristics (reviewed by Srebrena Bogović).

Volume 47 contains the texts of a selection of Croatian Renaissance poetry by Šiško Vlahović Menčetić, Džore Držić, Marko Marulić, Mavro Vetranović, Petar Hektorović, Hanibal Lucić, Antun Sasin, Nikola Dimitrović, Dinko Ranjina, Dominko Zlatarić, Barne Karnarutić, Juraj Baraković as well as a number of anonymous writers and two folk poems.  The Volume contains a bio-bibliography of each of the poets.  The Volume also contains book reviews of Bratislav Lučin’s The Marulić Reader (reviewed by Vinko Grubišić), John S. Miletich’s Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology (reviewed by Vladimir Bubrin) and Slobodan Prosperov Novak’s Slaveni u Renesansi (reviewed by Vladimir Bubrin).

Copies of the Journal may be ordered from the Academy (Members of the Academy receive issues of the Journal as part of their membership dues).