Davitiani

Davitiani

One of the original manuscripts of Davitiani
Author	Davit Guramishvili
Original title	დავითიანი
Language	Georgian
Subject	various
Genre	autobiography Verse Poem
Publication date	1894 (1st publishing) 1787 (original)
Publication place	Georgia
Pages	294 (1st publishing)

Davitiani (Georgian: დავითიანი) is the work of autobiographical poetry by Davit Guramishvili. Apart from the author's turbulent and eventful life, the book explores subjects such as religion, politics, patriotism and war. Despite being generally regarded as the most important work of Georgian literature in the 18th century, it was never published in the author's lifetime. While the poems were written in various periods of Guramishvili's life, the most important works were created in the last decades thereof. The author sent the raw manuscript from Myrhorod, Ukraine, where he resided at the time, to Tbilisi, Georgia in 1787 where it remained unpublished until the following century.

Further reading

• Cushman, Stephen (26 August 2012). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition. p. 555. ISBN 9781400841424.
• Rayfield, Donald (16 December 2013). The Literature of Georgia: A History. p. 115. ISBN 9781136825293.
• Baramidze, A. G.; Gamezardashvili, D. M. (September 2001). Georgian Literature. p. 38. ISBN 9780898755701.
• The earliest publication of Davitiani, 1894