„ŚNIE, KTÓRY UCZYSZ UMIERAĆ CZŁOWIEKA...” KRÓTKA NOTA DO FRASZKI II 37 („DO SNU”) JANA KOCHANOWSKIEGO
“ŚNIE, KTÓRY UCZYSZ UMIERAĆ CZŁOWIEKA... [O SLEEP, THAT TEACHES ALL PEOPLE TO DIE...]” A SHORT NOTE TO JAN KOCHANOWSKI’S TRIFLE II 37 “DO SNU” (“TO SLEEP”)

Summary/Abstract: Jan Kochanowski’s trifle II 37 Do snu (To Sleep) is a fairly enigmatic piece that researchers as a rulerightly interpret in the context of an exceptionally strong influence of Neoplatonism over the poet’soeuvre. This poem most probably deals with a reference to Anaxagoras’ saying from Joannes Stobaeus’grand anthology that “there are two things that teach us about death: the time before our birth, andsleep.” Kochanowski gave here a kind of Platonic commentary to the maxim from which it can followthat he did not entirely reject the Pythagorean teaching on the preexistence of the soul known from theworks of Late Antique philosophers but questioned by Christianity.

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