摘要：Marulić is a many-sided cultural figure, of exceptional richness and complexity. He can be approached from several points of view, and his works can be divided into various genres and sub-genres, circles and areas. However, irrespective of the genre, area or theme concerned, his personal style will easily be seen. In most of his oeuvre this is essentially determined by literary creation and moral and theological commitment. He consciously builds upon an aesthetic and ethical unity, so that both poet and moralist speak in him, writer and theologian. It is this that the paper is concerned with. At the centre is a basic thesis about the binary principle in the poetics of Marulić: the poetic and the ethic. Marulić, says the author, used this in both poetry and prose. His inspirations are different, but the motivation is always the same - moral and didactic. Thanks to this, all of his works, if one excludes certain minor forms, are essentially marked by both components - naturally, the poetic more by the poetic, the discursive more by the moral and theological. To support these claims, a comparative analysis is made of Marulić’s genetic procedure and stylistic means in both genres, prose and verse, in which he shows a creative collaboration of both the components. This style is thus called the poetic-didactic. Its essential features are: 1, an artistic structure and a rich metaphorical layer; 2, poetic relief and thoroughgoing ethical commitment; 2, dialogical fiction, an imaginary conversation between the poet and the reader, and suggestiveness leading the poet intentionally to choose material and cumulative presentation for the purpose of poetic and didactic effect. From this point of view it is concluded that Marulić’s creative act, if one wishes to approach him integrally, cannot be looked at only from a poetic and artistic point of view, through an ordinary stylistic analysis of his philological means, but also from the poetic-didactic, through the psycho-genetic structuring of the united aesthetic and ethical inspirations and intentions that have both been involved in the act of creation.
