Wiersze na ryciny jako dominanta polskojęzycznej twórczości Symeona z Połocka
Poems on Drawings as a Dominant of Symeon of Połock’s Polish Output

Part 1: From a Fable about an Old Man, a Boy and a Donkey to a Donkey Parable of Human Body

Summary/Abstract: Samuił Piotrowski-Sitnianowicz (1629–1680), more commonly known as Symeon of Połock, was in the years 1643–1650 a student of The Kyiv-Mohyla College and subsequently from 1650 to 1653 of The Vilnius Academy. Both schools required that their students composed poems in Polish, and exercises in this matter made a starting point for Piotrowski-Sitnianowicz’s poetic carrier. In his later poetry in Old Church Slavonic, epigrams written for drawings or paintings played an important role. The author of the present study proves that also 28 juvenile epigram cycles are Polonized from Latin subscriptions to popular series of Dutch artists’ drawings. Apart from indicating and discussing the drawings being the basis for the poet’s adaptation, the article offers the first critical edition of the analysed texts since the available publications of Symeon of Połock’s Polish output are far from being correct. The first part of the study presents the graphic sources of poetic cycles “Trudno wszytkim wygodzić” (adaptation of drawing series “Iudicii popularis vanitas et stoliditas <Vanity and Stupidity of Common People’s Judging>” by Ambrosius Francken the Elder from before the year 1607), “[Trojakie prawo]” (adaptation of drawing series “Triplex lex <Triple Law>” by Maarten de Vos from before 1580), “[Trzy stany i ich obowiązki]” (adaptation of Maarten van Heemskerck’s drawing cycle, circa 1565, “Triplex hominum status et uniuscuiusque munia ac partes <Three Social Classes, Their Functions and Duties>”), and “Zaniedbanie duszy dla zbytniego o ciele starania” – adaptation of an anonymous drawing cycle “Animae incuria ob nimiam corporis curam (Rapt Attention Given to Body Leads to Soul Negligence)”.

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