Litewsko-polskie związki w „Pieśni nowej Kalijopy sarmackiej”
Lituanian-Polish Relationship in “The New Song of Sarmatic Kaliope”

Closing of Aleksander Brückner and Karol Estreicher’s Argument about Authorship

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is “The New Song of Sarmatic Kaliope” published in Vilnius in 1605. It proclaimed the praise of Kircholm victory on September 27th 1605, in particular the approval of the chief commander Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. Due to its theme, as well as because of the participation in the battle of Charles Suderman, the King of Sweden, the “Song” became recognized in Poland and in Europe. The paper presents the history of the investigations on the Song and discusses its currently known unique specimen from the Municipal Library of Gdańsk. The article also establishes the piece’s authorship: the discovery in Lvov of another curiosity, “The Life of St. Kasimir” (Vilnius 1606) allowed to state that the author of both texts is Mateus Chryzostom Wołodkiewicz (circa 1585–1642), a graduate of The Vilnius Academy, a descendant of a Lithuanian ducal family. The paper also discusses a more extensive problem of the role of The Vilnius Academy as a center of humanistic culture and its contribution to youth education and preparation to live in civic society.

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