Italian holy pictures in the travel notes of Vasyl Grygorovych—Barsky Cover Image

Італійські образки у подорожніх записках Василя Григоровича-Барського
Italian holy pictures in the travel notes of Vasyl Grygorovych—Barsky

Author(s): Petro Bilous
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature
Published by: Wydział Lingwistyki Stosowanej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: ukrainian traveler; travelogue; Italian icons; landscape; miracle; baroque;

Summary/Abstract: The article is about ukrainian traveler Basyl Grygorovych-Barsky (1701–1747), who visited many countries of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, in particular, visited many cities of Italy, what was left colorful notes. Italian icons (landscapes, descriptions of cities, customs, stories about local miracles) characterized by thoroughness and attention to detail, curiosity and desire to talk about the country is available, interested and emotionally. This, together with complicated syntactic constructions made the unique baroque style of the prose permission crossing traveler and writer

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 95-100
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Ukrainian