Historyczny pierwowzór Serionic z "A Dorio ad Phrygium"
The historical prototype of Serionice from "A Dorio ad Phrygium"

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of analysis of the text of Norwid’s poem A Dorio ad Phrygium Jan Zieliński reconstructs Serionice, the place that is described in it; Serionice was a self-proclaimed state in the borderland of the Austrian and Russian partitions. Zieliński proposes the hypothesis that the Minkowce State was the prototype of Serionice; the Minkowce State was established by Ignacy Ścibor Marchocki called Redux. Next he gives a review of literary works and memoirs, Polish and French, written in Norwid’s lifetime, where the figure of Marchocki – as one playing the main or only an episodic part – and his Minkowce appear (Sylwester Groza, Klementyna Hoffmanowa nee Tan´ ska, Aleksander Jełowicki, Ludwik Mierosławski, Aleksander Przeździecki, Julian Słowacki). He points to a report signed by the name or pseudonym Boz˙ydar Saszor, published in “Przegla˛d Europejski” (May 1863) edited by Józef Ignacy Krasicki, as the probable direct source of Norwid’s inspiration for writing the poem. The article is concluded with a rhetoric question: “Why has the historical prototype of Serionice been unnoticed for 140 years?”

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