LIST CYPRIANA NORWIDA DO BRONISŁAWA ZALESKIEGO Z KOLEKCJI DZIKOWSKIEJ HRABIÓW TARNOWSKICH
LETTER FROM CYPRIAN NORWID TO BRONISŁAW ZALESKI FROM THE DZIKÓW COLLECTION OF THE TARNÓW COUNTS

Summary/Abstract: The article examines a hitherto unknown letter by Cyprian Norwid, dated 4 February 1870. The autograph, published together with critical commentary, was considered lost but is now held in the Tarnobrzeg Historical Museum, where it was donated in the autumn of 2021 as part of the remarkable Dzików collection amassed in the the early nineteenth century by Waleria nee Stroynowska and her husband Jan Feliks Tarnowski. A short presentation of the history and content of the Tarnowski collection is followed by a discussion of the context in which the letter was written, in particular Norwid’s preparations for a literary meeting organized by Eleonora Czapska in Paris. The countess invited the poet to recite a rhapsody by Homer and three passages from the Odyssey in his own translation.

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