The author mainly dedicated her study to the Cyrillo-Methodian cult and put emphasis on the way of its representation in the works of that period of time whose common feature is a specific historical period – the end of the 19th century. Apart from this, focuses her attention on the common geographical provenience of the authors of the introduced works that is Italy. In the text, the author aim at some works of Pietro Balan, Pietro Pressutti, Gaetano Alimonda and Domenico Bartolini, which she selected on the basis of two temporal and conceptual criteria in the course of the papacy of Leo XIII: the year 1880 – the release of the Encyclical Grande munus – and the year 1881 – the organisation of ta thanksgiving pilgrimage in Rome in the presence of the Slavs. Not less essential point of our research is the specification of the existence of the Cyrillo-Methodian cult in the discussed works using analytical and comparative methods. In our contribution, we finally try to synthesise the gained results in the form of defining of common traits in understanding and the way of representation of the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition in the analysed works of the above stated Italian historians.
The time and place, where an important event in Slavonic history took place, was an impetus to write the referred article. That event was the dispute with the so called trilingualists in Venice in the year 867. Our goal is not to deal with this event in detail, but to use it as one of the factors which influenced and made relations and mutual connections between Venice and Byzantium over a broad time range. Except the mentioned factor we focus on the further factors of interferences between Venice and Constantinople (the Byzantine Empire). The time when Venice was founded was a period which is clearly and logically connected with the Byzantine influence and thus we deal with this phase of development too. Within the framework of the given topic and time we describe only some selected noticeable interwoven factors – e.g. the emergence of the so called Byzantine Venice and its circumstances, the status of Venice as an part of the Exarchate of Ravenna, the position of Venice in the conflict between Byzantines and Franks.
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