Between allegory and panegyric, {Theatrum virtutum Divi Stanislai Hosii} by Tomasz Treter (recognitions)
Między alegoryzmem a panegiryzmem: Tomasza Tretera {Theatrum virtutum Divi Stanislai Hosii} (rozpoznania)

Summary/Abstract: {Theatrum virtutum Divi Stanislai Hosii} (Rome, 1588), an emblematic work by Tomasz Treter, is the subject of analysis aiming at diagnostic indication of its two dimensions, namely those related to emblems and panegyrics. Comparing apologias of one of the most significant persons in the Catholic church and merely moderate results of Hosius’ combats against evangelists in his diocese (first in the Bishopric of Culm, then diocese of Warmia) allows to call the inhibition of Counter-Reformation in Warmia only a limited success at the very most. The discrepancies between the contents of poems and chalcographies by Treter and their historical veracity reflect the scheme of allegory, which allowed even contradiction of signs and their meanings, and panegyric, with its truth about the past versus lie being fabrication or fiction.

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