Jan Kochanowski’s Amorous Foricoenia: Ovidian models. Part 1: The topoi in the little Ars Amatoria
Jan Kochanowski’s Amorous Foricoenia: Ovidian models. Part 1: The topoi in the little Ars Amatoria

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I would like to discuss the probably unobvious impact of Roman elegiac writers (most of all Ovid) on Latin erotic epigrams of Jan Kochanowski. Although it is unthinkable to dismiss the influence of Greek epigrams on the cycle of Foricoenia, those of them that are dedicated to the subject of love owe most to Latin elegies and chiefly to Ovid, the "teacher of love" (magister amoris). I wish to analyse several Ovidian models and manners of imitation employed by Kochanowski.

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