Justa parentalia* jako przykład zawodowej twórczości panegirycznej Stanisława Józefa Bieżanowskiego
Justa parentalia as an example of vocational panegyric output of Stanisław Józef Bieżanowski

Author(s): Aleksandra Golik-Prus
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: One of the omitted aspects of occasional writing of the second half of the 17th century is the onethat should be considered vocational. It clearly exemplifies a literary output of Józef Bieżanowski,a professor of Kraków Academy. All his life, apart from didactics, concentrated on honouring allkinds of events connected with a public and private life of the representatives of various socialstrata. The subject of interest is a Latin text from 1681, entitled Justa parentalia, devoted to MichałKazimierz Radziwiłł, who died in Bologna in 1680. The work constitutes a part of an occasionalwriting, consisting of the title page, stemmata, dedication to John III and a rhymed description ofRadziwiłł’s diplomatic mission to Rome. Bieżanowski’s work of a commemorative‑laudativenatureillustrates a final shape of evolution, included in the title of the notion of parentalia and its functioningin the reality of the 17th century Republic of Poland. In line with the elements of a publishingliterary frame of an occasional text, it perfectly illustrates one of the ways of honouring a funeral ofa person representing aristocratic layers of the society, and allows for discerning the author’s talentin an original perspective of the topic covered by other authors many a time so far.

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