Abstract
Dživo Gundulić is considered as one of the most renowned baroque writers of the old Dubrovnik literature, and his epic Osman represents the peak of his work. Osman embodies the times of its creation, including the dominant poetics, the ideas of the epoche, former political affairs, as well as the aspirations of the people of the time. The historical moment in which Gundulić wrote Osman was on the one hand marked by the reformation of the Catholic church and Baroque, as an advocate in the field of art, and on the other hand by the political situation distinguished by the dissatisfaction with the fact that Dubrovnik was dependant on Porta and the hope of quick liberation. The battle of Hoćin in 1621 was seen as the messenger of liberty and for both Gundulić and the people of Dubrovnik, Poland was the country which could bring liberty to the Slavs. The reasons for writing Osman can be divided into historical, i.e. the ones regarding the current political situation in Europe and Dubrovnik, and literary-artistic, i.e. the ones that are connected to the ruling poetics. Thus, the focus of the present paper will be the politics and the poetics of the Osman epic by Ivan Dživo Gundulić.
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