Kalwińska z Chrystusem wojna i odnaleziona Kolęda paniom saskim – domniemany autor i edycja wierszy antyprotestanckich
Calvinist War with Christ and Found Gift to the Saxon Ladies: Their Presumed Author and the Edition of Anti-Protestant Poems

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to establish the authorship of two seventeenth-century, anti-Protestant epigrammatic cycles – Kolęda paniom saskim [Gift to the Saxon Ladies] and Kalwińska z Chrystusem wojna [Calvinist War with Christ] – and to provide their first critical edition, which includes the pieces hitherto unknown and believed to be lost.In the main part of the paper, I challenge previous findings regarding the time of the composition of the two cycles, as well as the hypothesis on the authorship of one of them. Using an unknown manuscript from the Vilnius University Library, I discovered new epigrams, linked them to the pieces known from other textual witnesses, and attributed them to Jesuit Jan Chądzyński. This attribution, however, required addressing the scattered state of knowledge about him and revising – based primarily on the docu- ments preserved in the Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu – the previous scholarship on Chądzyński’s writings.The edition of the two cycles, included in the appendix, was prepared using ten manuscript witnesses of the Calvinist War with Christ (only part of them has been previously recognised) and two witnesses of the Gift to the Saxon Ladies. The edition includes transcription principles, critical apparatus, and explanatory notes.

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