Funkcje pamięci o sporze Benedykta Herbesta z Jakubem Górskim i arbitrażu Stanisława Orzechowskiego („Wawrzyńca z Sieradza”)
The Functions of Remembering the Dispute between Benedict Herbest and Jakub Górski, as well as the Arbitrage of Stanisław Orzechowski (“Wawrzyniec z Sieradza”)

Summary/Abstract: The author set himself two aims. First, to demonstrate how the most important poet of the Polish Renaissance, Jan Kochanowski (1530–1584), participated in the propaganda campaign led by the chancery of the Polish King, Stephen Báthory, during the Livonian War in the year fought in the years 1577–1582. Second, to attempt to discover the sources and textual inspirations for the Ode on the Capture of Polatsk or Ode 12 (Warsaw 1580), a Latin propaganda work commissioned from the poet by the Chancellor of Poland, Jan Zamoyski. To this end, the author placed the ode in a broad context of sources from the epoch, such as poems, pamphlets, maps, letters, etc.

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