====== Omissions, changes and additions in the RDCG ======
===== Marulić omits =====
  - Repetition
  - Unclear information, such as placenames unknown to the international reader
  - Biblical references, especially references to Jews killing Christ in the episode of Zvonimir's murder
  - Narrative detail:
     - unnecessary stages of the action (cutting this out is also recommended to beginning fiction writers)
     - storytelling from characters' perspective ("when he saw that there was no order" > "as there was no order"), including direct speech (which is used just once in the CC)
     - naive descriptions (e. g. of Constantine / Cyril: "And that man was altogether good and of holy life, and a great master in that place, and greatly clever, and a holy man from his childhood.")
     - stock periphrases (e. g. God = "he who can do everything")
     - stock similes (e. g. "he went like a storm", "he behaved as an angry lion")

===== Marulić changes =====
RDCG offers different interpretations:
  * An alleviation:
<blockquote>
CC So Sviolad made a deal with the Christians to pay him taxes

RDCG et in exigendis uectigalibus nullum inter Christianos et gentiles habens discrimen.
</blockquote>
  * A prolepsis and a specification:
<blockquote>
CC Ratimir was arrogant and harsh to everybody

RDCG insolescere coepit et regnante adhuc patre quasi dominari uelle.
</blockquote>
  * Another version: 
<blockquote>
in CC, it is the good king Radoslav who captures the rebels and enslaves them; 

in RDCG, it is his wicked son Seislav.
</blockquote>


RDCG transforms moralizing to make it more sophisticated:
<blockquote>
CC i voliše tarpiti onu tugu i nevolju prijimati i njih progonjenje, ko jest vrimenje, nego li u vike dušu izgubiti.

and they preferred to suffer the sorrow and undergo adversity //and their persecution, which is temporary, than for ever and ever to lose their souls//

RDCG sed quibus fides uita charior erat, omnia extrema perpeti malebant quam gentilitatis erroribus implicari.
</blockquote>



===== Marulić adds =====
  - Translations of Croatian termini technici
  - Cola and commata to achieve symmetry, especially at the end of sentence (they usually contain developed motifs or additional detail; cf. the examples of [[c:rdcg-anaphora|anaphoric pairs]])
  - Developed motifs: 
    - peace ("nihil contigit turbulentum; ocium et pax erat, ab armis quies." cf. peace under Zvonimir)
    - faith, 
    - concord,
    - apostolic authority
  - Epic detail in descriptions:
    - battle and persecution, 
    - the Dalmatian Maritime Kingdom, 
    - a chase 
    - waiting, 
    - a hound-dog, 
    - human activity in a Croatian "golden age", 
    - dramatic public reading of a a letter
    - end of the second letter by the Pope to Croatians, which calls them to a Crusade;
    - answer of angry Croatians to this, as reported speech 
  - Narrative prolepsis
  - Motivation in narrative, especially what motivates the leaders and political decisions
  - Moralizing afterword to narrative


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