Nosorożec księdza Birkowskiego, czyli symboliczne gry z czytelnikiem barokowego kaznodziei
Father Birkowski’s Rhinoceros, That Is Baroque Preacher’s Symbolic Plays with Reader

Summary/Abstract: Stefan Chmielecki, a newly appointed voivode of Kiev, who gained fame for the most part during Turkish invasions, died in 1630. Two years later, a Dominican, Fabian Birkowski, prince Władysław’s chaplain, published a thorough preachment dedicated to him in which, consistent with the then fashion, he used a number of peculiar pieces of information about rhinoceros extracted mainly from old works and newer nature books. Identifying the rhinoceros (to whom the preachment protagonist was compared) with mythological unicorn, Birkowski constructed a subtle heraldic allusion. Though in the preachment he made no remark about that, his readers for certain knew that the Chmielecki’s used the Bończa coat of arms which showed a unicorn against a blue background.

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