Az Orpheus rejtett programja
The Hidden Programme of Orpheus

Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to trace the Masonic implications behind the programme of Kazinczy’s periodical, Orpheus’. The context of the first issue of Orpheus and the simultaneously written Inaugural Address (Hivatalba vezető beszéd) in December 1789 show the unity of the aspirations of the school inspector and the editor, and the letters to György Aranka and Alajos Batthyány-Strattmann in March 1790 and January 1791 show the connection between this public programmatic thinking and Kazinczy’s ideal vision of Freemasonry. The first letter was written at the very beginning of the implementation of the programme, while the second one shortly before its final debacle, as a last attempt to renew it. Soon, however, Kazinczy’s career both as a school inspector and as an editor came to an end.

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