Sąsiedzkie wizyty Mikołaja Reja w Wereszczynie i ich historycznoliterackie reperkusje
Neighbourly visits of Mikołaj Rej in Wereszczyn as well as their historical and literary repercussions

Summary/Abstract: In 1585, five works by Józef Wereszczyński (after 1531–1598) were published in Kraków in the printing house of Andrzej Piotrkowczyk (deceased 1620). They were assembled into a single fascicle and featured common pagination, although they were typographically independent. One of these was Gościniec pewny niepomiernym moczygębom a omierzłym wydmikuflom świata tego do prawdziwego obaczenia a zbytków swych pohamowania z Pisma świętego i z rozmaitych autorów zebrany i wydany, containing the work Żywot Rejów, an account of the visits paid by Mikołaj Rej (1505–1569) to the author’s ‘father’s nest’. This Żywot Rejów, a pamphlet on the citizen of Nagłowice – depicted as a drunkard and a glutton – is currently the best known piece in the whole of Wereszczyński’s literary oeuvre. It is the paper’s objective to recover the history of the ‘discovery’ of the above-mentioned passage, to show the role it played in shaping the moral evaluation of Rej as a person and his literary heritage in the nineteenth century and to trace the enduring popularity of Żywot Rejowy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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