Strategie pochwalne w utworze Pienia wesołe dziatek… Walentego Bartoszewskiego (ze zbiorów Biblioteki Kórnickiej)
Strategies of Praise in Pienia wesołe dziatek… by Walenty Bartoszewski (from the Collection of the Kórnik Library)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a little-known collection of panegyric poems by the Vilnius poet Walenty Bartoszewski: Pienia wesołe dziatek na przyjazd do Wilna Króla Jego M[ości], senatu i rycerstwa jego po rekuperowaniu Smoleńska. A unique printed copy of the collection is held by the Polish Academy of Sciences Kórnik Library. The author offers an interpretation of the work, identifying the used laudatory strategies, the key motifs, and Bartoszewski’s main sources of inspiration (primarily within the orbit of the Czarnolas tradition), as well as the work’s function and the objectives it might have sought to achieve.

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