Renesansowe teorie figuratywności (III): Adam Burski
Renaissance Theories of Figurativity (III): Adam Burski

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the article is a presentation of a book on elocution “Tractatus de elocutione et ornamentis illius, sive figurarum verborum et sententiarum” prepared by Adam Burski (c. 1560–1611). The volume is preserved in the manuscript collection of The National Library of Poland and is probably based on Burski’s lectures on rhetoric delivered at The Zamojski Academy in the year 1605. It consists of 26 chapters and each of them contains a fragment of Cicero’s work in rhetoric with the humanist’s commentary (scholion). The exposition of Burski’s study in tropes and their types allows, on the one hand, to describe his rhetorical education project (examples of tropes are taken from the Polish language), and on the other hand, to discuss such detailed matters as the essence of eloquence (ornateness), rhetoric simulation, and emulation of Cicero’s style.

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