50 The research of the Ancient Dubrovnik`s literature had primarily began by its biographers; afterwards signifcant docu- ments that had been found in the Dubrovnik`s archive made possible to the researchers to give immense contributions in this feld. The 21st century brought, in the area of the historiography especially, new approaches toward research of the renaissance and baroque literature of the Ancient Dubrovnik. New fndings in Marin Držić`s biography, as well as research of the social status in Dubrovnik, especially of its aristocracy have made possible to apply the new methods in studies of the works written during the time of the Renaissance ,and above all the comedies. Additionally, the forming of the Dubrovnik`s myth, which has been constructed for centuries by the writers of the Old Republic provides new and more intellectual view on their literary contribution. Key words: Dubrovnik, renaissance, baroque, new historicism, subversive literature NEW METHODS IN THE RESEARCHING OF OLD DUBROVNIK`S LITERATURE Irena Arsić 1 Review paper Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis, Republic of Serbia Received: 27.07.2016 Accepted: 08.09.2016 ABSTRACT 1 Correspodence to: Irena Arsic, PhD, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Nis, Republic of Serbia Phone: +381 64 801 3397 e-mail: irena.arsic@flfak.ni.ac.rs To begin with, the biographers and historians from Dubrovnik (Ragusa) had an aim to preserve the works of their contemporaries. Therefore, they of- ten assembled collections of the biographies of the authors or just notes with short description of the biographic and bibliographic data; these antholo- gies had been evaluated by their writers, by study- ing characteristics such as their religious order, universities which they attended, areas of exper- tise, but also in the chronological sense. Plethora of these records are not reliable and are wrongly quoted, but the signifcant result is the enormous biographic and bibliographic material regarding the literature works in the Ancient Dubrovnik for cen- turies. During the 19 th century, this important corpus became the material for the frst history of the Dubrovnik`s literature made by Italian Francesco Maria Ap- pendini. Appendini, professor from Dubrovnik,in the work Notizie istorico-critiche sulle antichita, storia e letteratura de’ Ragusei (Appendini, 1802- 1803) had presented the old Dubrovnik`s literature as a whole, which had opened the door for the fu- ture investigations in this feld (Stanojević, 2013). The end of the 19 th century brought the revolution- ary discover in the terms of the research of the liter- ature of Dubrovnik. During its research on the feld of history of the Balkans, above all history of the Serbs, Czech historian Konstantin Jireček (Jireček, 1899) discovered important archive documents sig- nifcant for the history of the Dubrovnik`s literature (Jireček, 1897, 1899). His fnding brought new pos- sibilities in the terms of abovementioned literature studies; this, later on, was accepted by the numer- ous prestigious philologists who had discovered in the Dubrovnik`s archive essential materials regard- ing to the biographies and works of the authors of the Ancient Dubrovnik`s literature. INTRODUCTION I. ARSIĆ, NEW METHODS IN THE RESEARCHING... HUMAN, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2016 DOI: 10.21554/hrr.091608